DISTRIBUTION PROBLEM IN INDIA
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AUCKLAND, June 1. With the present organisation for distribution of food in India at least 25 per cent of the supplies sent from New Zealand would rot or be spoiled in store before it could be delivered to the people who needed it, said Mr, J. M. Calder, a New Zealander who, after having lived for 27 years in India, has returned to the Dominion to spend his retirement. He arrived with his .wife in the British steamer Empire Dynasty yesterday. Mr Calder, who was deputy-superin-tending engineer of the Kivers Steam Navigation C-o. in Bengal and Assam, said that he had seen thousands of tons of rice rotting in the famine of 1943 and, although Nissen huts were available as stores, he considered that much food would be wasted --again. A former resident of Dunedin, Mr Calder |has been back to New Zealand on only oue former occasion 14 years ago since he went to India after demobilisation in Mesopotamia follo.wing the First World War.
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 June 1946, Page 4
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