PUDDING WITH DINNER
BETTER RATIONS FOR PRISONERS THREE NEW SCALES A boiled or steamed pudding is to he issued with dinner on at least two days in each week in future to prisoners in His Majesty’s prisons in New Zealand. This is provided for in the amended Prison Regulations, which make regular improvements to the ration scale which has been in operation for some time.
The following quantities and scales of diet each day have been fixed: — —For Prisoners Employed.— Males. Females.
Milk, in the proportion 2& quarts to 100 rations (to be added to tea), shall be supplied to all convicted prisoners. Syrup, in terms of the first scale, is to be issued only to prisoners serving terms of one month and over. The variations in diet provide that 4oz bread may be substituted for either the oatmeal ration or for Boz potatoes; 11b fish (if procurable) may be issued in lieu of meat ration on one day a week; 3oz rice may be substituted for one-half the oatmeal ration on two days a week, sugar ration on such days to be increased by ioz.
Bread 24 oz 16 oz Meat 16 07. 8 oz Oatmeal 5 07. 2.) oz Potatoes 16 oz 12 oz Vegetables (green or root) 6 07, 4 oz Salt -J oz i oz Sugar 2$ oz 3 02 Tea i oz i oz Cocoa J oz A oz Bice — 2 oz Milk i Pt J pt 'Butter 2 oz 2 oz Syrup (a week) ... i lb lb — For Convicted Prisoners Not Employed or Performing Lit cht Labour Only. — Males. -Females. Bread 16 oz 16 oz Meat 8 oz 6 oz Oatmeal 8 oz 2J oz Potatoes 12 oz 8 oz Vegetables (green or root) ... 6 oz 2 oz Salt 4 oz i oz Sugar 2 oz 3 oz Tea J oz i oz Cocoa i oz i oz Rice ... — 14 oz Milk i Pt i pt Butter 2 oz 2 oz — For Trial and Remand Prisoners and Debtors. — Males. Females. Bread 24 oz 16 oz Meat 10 oz 6 oz Oatmeal 3 oz 2i oz Potatoes 12 oz 10 oz Vegetables (green or root) 6 oz 4 oz Salt i oz i oz Sugar 24 oz 2 oz Tea 4 oz i oz Cocoa A- oz i oz Prisoners to have choice of four of the' following items for weekly periods: — Milk i Pt i pt Cheese 2 oz 3 oz Sugar (a week) 4 lb } lb Jam or syrup (a week) 1 lb 1 lb Butter (a week) i Jb i lb
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Evening Star, Issue 23684, 18 September 1940, Page 4
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429PUDDING WITH DINNER Evening Star, Issue 23684, 18 September 1940, Page 4
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