BEER FOR EGYPT

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 270, 12 February 1941, Page 3

BEER FOR EGYPT

NEW ZEALAND TROOPS

RECORD SHIPMENT MADE

New Zealand troops in the Muddle {last will shortly receive an Auck-

land antidote for the burning licat "Of Egypt. The fact is that the largest individual consignment of beer ever shipped Iron! this country has reccntlv been executed by the Wnitemata Brewery Company. An order for 22,000 dozen quarts—representing 44,000 gallons—of ale was filled and dispatched for New Zealand

troops serving overseas. The magnitude of such an order may be better realised from the fact that to send the order from Auckland to Wellington by rail required an entire goods train consisting of 80 trucks. The ale, which was packed in cartons and boxes, amounted to a total weight of 440 tons. The brewing of the 22,000 dozen quarts required over 2000 bushels of malt and 11001b of hops. This record shipment w*as bottled, packed and dispatched within 48 hours-—r which is a tribute to the efficiency of modern machinery. A marvel of ingenuity and performance is the world's latest and most up-to-date washing, bottling, capping and packing machine which performs each of these functions automatically at the rata of over 1000 dozen pints and

quarts per hour

Statisticians Busy,

Meanwhile local statisticians have been working out all the odds and ends attendant on such an item of news. Some said that if all the empty bottles—after the boys had finished with them —were placed end to end they would reach from Cairo to Bardia. Some even went so far as to guess that they would stretch a mile behind the Italian lines.and clank against the Ghianti.

One man became reminiscent about the metal bottle tops. He calculated that, if dropped in one solid mass, they would sink an Italian battleship, or, a» least, give it a nasty tilt. He added that of the tops were spread out and welded together they would provide armour plate for the most modern battleship. He sale, he couldn't imagine 22,000 dozen quarts . . . and as for 44,000 gallons! Thera j,ust couldn't be so much in the world, he added wistfully, confessing that he had never seen anything bigger than a hogshead in his life.

Anyway, calculations or no calculations, the soldiers are going to have a happy time. Think of 704,000 "half handles." It sounds bet-

ter that way.

DOGS TENDER: CATS SWEETER ON NAZI MENU

To war menu which already included fish-fed poultry, decrepit horses, goats and numerous zoo animals, Germany recently added those of its dogs which had not been killed by an earlier decree to save food, states the American news-magazine Time. A new law, effective on January 1, states that dogs, wolves, foxes, bears, badgers and wild hogs have been legalised as me>at. After being inspected for trichina, their carcases will be addressed, stamped and distributed to butchers for rationing to general consumers. Dog meat has been eaten in every major German crisis at least since the time of Frederick the Great, anA is commonly referred to as "blockade mutton." It is tough, gamy, strong-flavoured. In boiling or roasting, it gives oil" an odour reminiscent oT a negleetcjd zoo. Of European dog breeds, the German dachshund is considered the most succulent. Cat, known as "roof rabbit,'* is like rabbit, except sweeter and tougher. It can be fried like chicken or prepared, en casserole. Horse meat is dark, coarse, sweet and, ex-

cept in young horses, very tough. Mixed with pork, it is used in Italian and Hungarian salami and is the poor man's meat throughout Europe. General consumers in Germany get only old horses for food because the younger ones go to the army.