HOW RATIONING SAVED FOOD FOR BRITAIN

Chronicle (Levin), 17 April 1946, Page 2

HOW RATIONING SAVED FOOD FOR BRITAIN

—Press Association ,

By T.elegt%vb-

f ,. ' V' V\'1aL LIX GTOX, April 10. The butter. and meat as a resu'lt of "the-.a-atiomiig of tliese foodstutf's in Kew Zealand, wero aiinouneed bv the Rationing- ( ■ontroller, i;. A; J. Uostelloe, in an address to-night in ivliieli »he appealed for sun pui'L ior the '.PooQ " .Poi" Britaiu cauipaign inaugurated by the Famine Emergeucy Counnittee of \yhudi he is a lueinber. He said that since the inception of butter rationing in O.ctooer, 1913, New Zealand s'aved 23,000 tons of butter. Over 10,000 tons of meat had been withdrawn irom civiiian consuniption in the two years that meat had been a rationed commodity, while 130,000 baconer p.gs had been withdrawn lrom civiuan consumption suice June 1013, by the unoihcial rationing of hani and bacon.

Britaiu u as iu dire need or baconer carcases, said AI r. Cos'telloe, henee thcre was an obligation on Xeiv Zealand to save. ail the hani and- -bacon \ve rouiti., New Zealand 's contribution had been guod- but the people -could kssist furtlter by voluntary rationing. Tliese further contribtitions would either assist 1 ritain to niaintain lier meagre ration oi increase it. • Britaiu was also short of fats apart iTonr butter and , cheese. Evorvonc stould begiii at once to save sur.plus lioiisehofd t'at and an announceinent on the subject would be made as soou as plans t'or reeeptioii depots had been completed. Mr. Oostelloe said sonie of the reasons for the. short age of food in the world to-day were that stock piles of n seryes had clisappeared during the wnr. and that labour was not available to attend to the cultivation of the land and crops. y •