FOOD RATIONING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 January 1940, Page 5

FOOD RATIONING

BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY FALLS INTO LINE STATEMENT BY MINISTER, SCHEME WORKED OUT BEFORE WAR. LONDON, January 8. The rationing of butter, bacon, ham. eggs, and sugar starts today. The King has requested that the Royal rationing should be as strict as possible, and the Queen has drawn up special, menus eliminating two courses from the luncheon and dinner in order to use more fruit and vegetables. The Minister of Food, Mr Morrison, said: “Neither U-boats nor mines nor German piracy have compelled us to ration. The scheme was worked out before the war. Reserves of the main foodstuffs will be accumulated as a matter of sheer prudence.” VITAL TO VICTORY NO SERIOUS DEPRIVATION ENTAILED. CONSIDERATION FOR SEAMEN. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.0 a.m.) RUGBY, January 3. Rationing is being regarded by the country generally as a necessary and even helpful expedient under present conditions. The “Manchester Guardian” says: "Properly regarded, the system is not one of deprivation, but of convenience. With quantities assured and alternatives available, the diet' of the nation will lose nothing in food values, wTiile relief to shipping will free it for the carriage of cargoes vital to victory. Had the public needed a stimulus to cheerful acceptance of the plan it would have been found in Mr Morrison’s plea that we should not ask seafaring men. naval and mercantile, to add to the. risks they are hourly taking with such fine courage by bringing us an excess. A few minor alternations in our accustomed dietary will be gladly faced by every citizen who can envisage the saving they entail in cargo space, in the export pf currency and in the demands made on our sailors.”