FOOD ADEQUATE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 June 1941, Page 5

FOOD ADEQUATE

LONDON UNDER BLIT2. SPIRIT OF THE PEOPLE. "I do hope that you in New Zealand don’t think we are going through such a terrible time. Naturally, we do have some bad moments, but I am sure that if you could see London you would be surprised at the small amount of damage that has been done." This reassurance of how London is “taking it” was contained in a letter received by a Wellington business man from the head of a mercantile firm in London. This firm had been bombed out of one building, but was carrying on its business in another. Rail and street traffic was described as quite normal, and London as seen whole and from a height was described as difficult to believe as having been bombed at all. This, of course, was before the most recent “blitz.” A later letter, dated March 13, said: “There is very little to report. Everyone is extremely confident,” and reference was then made to the success of counter-measures taken to deal with night raiders. Thanks were conveyed for presents of New Zealand butter in tins. One parcel arrived in an uneatable condition: the next was described as “perfect.” The writer added: “I should like to remove any false impression that you in New Zealand may have as to food supplies in the Old Country. As yet supplies of foodstuffs are quite adequate; and even if we have to do with, say, 50 per cent less, things will not be too bad. “Provided we can only rid the world of the Nazi menace, no sacrifice can be too great."