PRISON CELLS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 20, 23 February 1942, Page 5

PRISON CELLS

ONE OF BRITAINS FOOD EMERGENCY STORES Hundreds of cold storage centres with a temperature of 200 belowfreezing point are now available up and down Great Britain for the colossal order of 1,000,000 tons of meat recently; placed by the Ministry of Food with Australia and South America. Each of these centres can keepthousands of tons of meat, bacon, butter and frozen eggs over a period! of two years. In one of them,, for example, there are 1200 tons of butter,- 3400 tons of meat and a large quantity of bacon; another holds 60,000 carcases of mutton; a third, 3000 pig carcases. In peace time, Britain's- food storage resources are to be found mainly at the 1 docks. To-day, scattered throughout the country are not only these hundreds of cold storage cen-r tres but 10,000 other storing places for non-perishable food products, set up according to district and each supplying its own area with at least six or seven main articles of food.

There has been some quick improvisation. Here a textile mill,, there a furniture factory, has been turned Into service; in one case the celjs of a prison are to be foundcrammecT with canned meat; a casino now holds 700 tons of tea, margarine

and flour