THE FIRST FOOD.
Sir,-I listened with great interest and very mixed feelings to the talk by Dr. Elizabeth Byson on "What Shall We Eat?-the First Food," on Friday evening last. We are all agreed that the fruits of the earth are for the good of man, but how can the average family to-day buy in sufficient quantity for health butter at 1/6 per lb., milk at 7d. per quart, eggs at 1/9 per dozen, fish at 10d. per Ib., oranges at 2d. each? To bring these foods and others to the homes and tables of the people of New Zealand we need not a change of heart on the part of the mothers and fathers and guardians of the children of this fair land but in the pockets of these same people a sufficient number of tickets with which to
obtain these health giving foods. We pray, "Give us this day our daily bread.’ Let us not continue to live in fear of the future, but in reality, moment by moment, that we may be a healthy and contented
people now.-
A.
Mew
(Dunedin).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 68, 11 October 1940, Page 4
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184THE FIRST FOOD. New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 68, 11 October 1940, Page 4
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