FEEDING CENTRES
LONDON’S BOMBED AREAS COFFEE STALLS IN SHELTERS LONDON, Oct. 1. The Minister o_f Food, Lord Woolton, stated that 58 emergency feeding centres had been opened ,in London’s bombed areas. Provision had also been made for a further 200. Food was available to anyone ready and willing to pay. There was no desire to give anything for nothing. Arrangement had also been made for mobile vans to feed people in shelters, particularly in the mornings. Similar feeding centres were being established in other big centres.
Street coffee stalls, which were a feature of London night life before the war, and at which all classes met in the early hours of the morning for plain, wholesome refreshment have been called upon by Lord Woolton to play their part in the emergency feeding of Londoners affected by German air attacks. Lord Woolton asked the coffee stall proprietors who have gone out of business to come into existence again as he wished them to provide food for people in air raid shelters, and he said that the Ministx*y would be glad to secure petx’ol and supplies of food for them and would arrange which shelters they were to go to, while protection would be given against air raid risk.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24419, 3 October 1940, Page 9
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