SEAMEN’S MENUS
BETTER FARE TO BE PROVIDED. Sailors of the British Mercantile Marine are to have brighter menus while at sea.
More butter, sugar, milk and eggs are to find their way to the fo’c’sle, following negotiations between the National Union of Seamen and shipowners at the National Maritime Board. The Board of Trade has been requested by the N.M.B. to make the new scales of provisions compulsory. Meanwhile, special menus are being drafted to meet all climatic conditions under the supervision of dietetic experts. Under the new regulations, each man will be able to have an additional egg a day if he wishes, as an equivalent to two ounces of meat. Fish may be issued as a substitute for meat, and fresh vegetables are to be provided whenever possible. Supply of onions is to be increased from three ounces a week to half a pound, butter from half to three-quar-ters of a pound, and condensed mills from four and three-quarter ounces to nine and one-third ounces.
In regard to beverages, chocolate and cocoa are specifically provided for for the first time.
It is no longer to be permissable for part of the men's agreed rations (such as fats) to be previously used up in the preparation of their food.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 February 1939, Page 4
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210SEAMEN’S MENUS Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 February 1939, Page 4
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