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From: "Coral Woon" <>
Subject: Re: [NZ] Rationing
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 20:11:57 +1200
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Watching the equivalent of the Home Guard practising bayoneting 'sack
people' suspended from a wooden frame. Rushing under a tree when
somebody shouted 'Jap plane' Playing in the slit trenches (war of
course) Mum saying 'eat it and be thankful' Saying my prayers every
night for my numerous cousins overseas. We NEVER had cream and extra
butter etc because we felt if we did our cousins would be in danger. We
lost three. Italy, North Sea, over Germany all of them under 22.
Coral
----- Original Message -----
From: "Clyde Hurrell" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: [NZ] Rationing


>
>
> Shirley Arabin wrote:
> >
> > and do you remember those awful green beans that had been salted
down in a
> > crock. Put me off beans for years.
>
> Strangely enough Shirley, my young brother would eat nothing but beans
> for years and I have only just recently re-inherited the old Stone jar
> they were salted down in. I put it up for auction when I moved into
the
> Village and got $50 for it.
> Other recalls 1. The girl Boarders that were man powered down to
> Wellington from up country, putting Condy's Cryatsals solution on
their
> legs before going to the Saturday noight "hop". They could not have
had
> yank marine boy friends other wise nylons would have been available.
> Silk was out as it was used to make parachutes.
> 2. My dad's boss bought a second car just for the petrol ration. Sold
it
> to Dad in 1947 for 35 Pounds(Book Value).
> 3.Who remembers collecting ergot from wild rye grass? And the slit
> trenches cutting up the School playgrounds? making camouflage nets at
> the Scout Hall? i did over 150 hours and was thre prud owner of a
> National Service badge.
> I could go on but i won't bore yo,
> Oh nostalgia.
> Clyde H
> The Hippy Kiwi
>
> > Shirley Arabin
> > Mount Maunganui, New Zealand .
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Coral Woon" <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Monday, 18 March 2002 07:43
> > Subject: Re: [NZ] Rationing
> >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Betty Juranovich" <>
> > > To: <>
> > > Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 7:04 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [NZ] Rationing
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > We had a large tin of honey and used it instead of sugar in
our tea.
> > > > > Shirley Arabin
> > > > > Mount Maunganui
> > > >
> > > > and then our Mum used the 4 gallon honey tin to hold the
preserved
> > > eggs.
> > > >
> > > > Betty of the Bay of Islands.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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> > > >
> > > That was my job. I think the stuff used to preserve them was
called
> > > Ovaline or something similar to do with the words eggs. And when
you
> > > used the preserved egg it was never a nice tidy egg, the yolk was
always
> > > runny so we only used them for baking.
> > > Coral
> > >
> > >
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