WHALEMEAT AT A GERMAN BANQUET.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 311, 17 December 1936, Page 2

WHALEMEAT AT A GERMAN BANQUET.

The newest supplement to the German citizens 1 ’ diet necessitated by' the shortage of pork and beef is whalemeat, .writes the Berlin correspondent of the Manchester Guardiap. A banquet .which included dishes * of whalemeat was given by the Ministry of Agriculture in one of the leading hotels in Berlin recently to ■ guests from "the high ranks of the Nationalist Socialist Party, Government officials, and the defence forces, among those sampling, the unusual food being officials of Foreign Office, the,'War Office-, the Ministries of J,ustipe’ Interior, and Health, the Labour Service. Corps ,and the Black Guards. The German Consul in Oslo, Whose discoveries are stated to make whalemeat utilisable as human food.- so th'at. .it. is now saved instead of being thrown overboard after the removal of rhe'blubber and other products, . ‘jH. , - W was the guest of honour, with a n'rrftal officer who for years has urged it® value of whalemeat as food. 7 Those partaking, of the whalerneat

were seated to have been convinced of its goodness, and also that it had no remaining .taste of blubber. It is declared that whalemeat can be prepared .cheaply and preserved almost indefinitely'. Ano: her economy belonging to Hitler’s four-year plan is softwood stoppers for bottles, which will make the importation of cork unnecessary. Ringed channels are drilled pant of the way through the wooden stoppei-s to give them greater elasticity. It is hoped that Germany will save 8,0170,I 000 marks in foreign currency' by their use. ! Pure new woollen cloth apparently j is to disappear from Germany except Iso far as high-class, foreign cloths i, -mainly British, continue <0 be imported. An order issued by- the domestic textile trade forbids the merchandise mark ‘‘Pure wool.’.’ A new-> mark, •Woollen goods,” may be used ih- * stead where the woollen cloth conI tains an admixture not exceeding 2 ) i per cent, of staple fibre'.