Cheap Meals.

Manawatu Herald, 19 April 1900, Page 3

Cheap Meals.

Under date March ioth a London cable to American papers ran :— Years ago Sir Thomas Lipton, owner of tbe Shamrock, declared that if he ever became rich he would help to supply good food. at the lowest possible price to poor people. The Alexandra trust dining-rooms, named after the Princess of Wales, which Sir Thomas started by donating £100,000, opened the first branch fin the City this week. The meals, which cost from $d to 4^d, consist of a hot meal, soup, steak, pudding, and two vegetables, with a choice of pastry and tea, coffee, or cocoa. For a halfpenny one can buy a quantity of vegetables or pudding. There are also intermediate dishes at various prices. The arrangements include the sending of a good, hot meal for a halfpenny a head to schools within a radius of three miles. Another part of the scheme is to provide hot water carts to convey the meals to sick and bedridden persons? who are unable to walk to the dining rooms, which can "^accommodate 1500 persons at a time, where there are ample facilities for serving from 10,000 to 12,000 persons daily. The governors reckon on a profit of 3 per cent, on the captal invested, which will be used in extending •the work. l The present building is spacious and comfortable, and has all

modern appliances. All the materials are of an excellent quality. The Princess of Wales is deeply interested in the scheme. The Hon. Charles Russell, Sir Thomas Lipton, and Lady Faudel- Phillips *aie the members of the executive committee.