FOOD STORES
SCHEME TO MEET EMERGENCY. MAINTENANCE OF SUPPLIES. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 5. As part of the plans for maintaining food supplies in the event of war, the Food Defence Plans Department has framed a scheme, in consultation with its advisory committee on provision and groceries, for the grouping of wholesale firms of provision dealers and grocers which serve the more densely populated areas. The scheme is designed in particular as a safeguard against the possibility that the main office of the wholesale firm or its warehouse or its transport facilities might be damaged or destroyed. The proposal provides that, if in war conditions one or more firms in the group were temporarily unable to maintain distribution, other member: would fill the gap on terms to be mutually arranged. Traders and firms in the areas specified are asked to form groups immediately and to forward particulars by April 15. Members of all political parties have subscribed to the following motion tabled in the House of Commons: “That expedient steps be taken forthwith to obtain and store essential food -eserves to meet the danger of a continued reduction of imports in the event of a protracted war.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1939, Page 7
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198FOOD STORES Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1939, Page 7
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