BUTTER WITH JUSTICE
sir-So Bert the carpenter is troubled in case the farmers get ahead of him with the butter ration. I don’t think he need worry. I have just been staying for a week or two on a sheep farm. The owner, a veteran of the last war, had just finished two years’ service in an Army job within New Zealand. During his absence from home, his wife managed the place. His son is still a schoolboy-the daughters are land-girls. Everyone was off to work about the place before eight in the morning, except when mustering was in -progress, and then breakfast was at 0 am., with lunches cut and other preparations made the ‘hight before. They had one house cow, which supplied milk for the household, and they bought their butter, so had. the halfpound ration like everybody else. Each person’s ration was kept on a separate dish, and when a’cake was to be made, a little was taken off each portion, so as to be fair all round. That surely is as democratic as it could: be.
RUFUS
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 235, 24 December 1943, Page 3
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182BUTTER WITH JUSTICE New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 235, 24 December 1943, Page 3
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