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Mahurangi Matters, 31 March 2025 – Readers Letters

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March 31, 2025 3:50pm

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Mar 31, 2025 3:50pm

No free lunch

We had golden syrup sandwiches until we were sick of them. But what else was there for a 1920s school pupil? Christopher Luxon’s Marmite sandwich comment is comparable. 1950-60s lunches were much the same. One had what was available and thankful for a lunch.

Maybe kids today have too much choice and too much influence in their home.

For the government to be feeding this nation’s children is unbelievable in our advanced civilisation.

Christine Foster, Mahurangi

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