FOOD FOR BRITAIN

Chronicle (Levin), 23 October 1947, Page 7

FOOD FOR BRITAIN

VERY FINE EFFORT BY TOLAGA BAY WELLINGTON, Oct. 22. A remarkable achievement in the sparseiy* pojmlated Tolaga Bay, in the Gisborne district, was a feature of last week's food coupon savings in the Aid for Britain eampaign. Tolaga Bay district, whose eentre is the settlement of the same name, with. a population of under 500, gave no fewer than 2800 butter coupons and 25,300 rneat coupons, nearly one-third of all the butter coupons colleeted in the Dominion and more than one-seventh of all the meat coupons. This result was achieved by a personal canvass by members of the staff of the postmaster, Mr. L. G. Watson. Considering the size of Tolaga Bay's population, it is an achievement that has not been surpassed during the whole of the 76 weeks of the eampaign. Beturns for the Dominion generally last week refl.ee ted renewed interest in the eampaign. The totai of butter coupons colleeted (7177) was more than double those of the previous week and the meat coupons (171,320) were nearly half as inuch again. The returns were the best for 21 weeks. To date 131,315 butter and 12,161,411 meat coupDns have been contributed. This represents an extra 96J tons of butter and 2714 tons of meat made available for the people of Britain. Gisborne again headed the 20 postaJ distriets in last week's returns, both in the average number of coupons per household (six) and iu the aggregate number of coupons (3810 butter, 49,544 meat coupons). Oamaru was seeond with an average of 21 coupons for eacli household and Hawke's Bay third with 14 coupons for each household.