FOOD SUPPLIES.
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(British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 11.40 a.m.) RUGBY, Oct. 1. Mr Malcolm MacDonald states that opportunity will be given mothers and children in six more London boroughs to evacuate to the country. The Government is arranging transport and billets, and paying a lodging allowance. ~■ / . ,'
Householders’ evacuation now applies to fourteen boroughs. Lord Woolton (Minister, of Food) states that 58 emergency feeding centres have been opened in London’s bombed areas. Provision is also being made for a further 200. Food is available to anyone ready and willing to pay. There, is no. desire to give anything for nothing; Arrangements have also been made for mobile vans to feed people in shelters, particularly in the mornings. Similar feeding centres are being established in other big centres.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 261, 2 October 1940, Page 7
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