MAJOR PROBLEM

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 November 1943, Page 3

MAJOR PROBLEM

OF THE PACIFIC WAR SOLVED BY NEW ZEALAND & AUSTRALIA. FOOD SUPPLIES FOR AMERICAN FLEET. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, November 15. Australia and New Zealand were supplying the American Pacific Fleet with tremendous quantities of fresh vegetables and meat, and in doing so had largely helped to solve one of America’s major problems. This was stated in London by Admiral William Brent Young, Chief of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts and PaymasterGeneral of the United States Navy. The admiral has recently returned from a 24,000-mile tour of the Pacific and South Pacific areas, including Australia and New Zealand, to investigate the speed and efficiency with which naval supplies are reaching the fighting forces there. He said: “By supplying the United States with fresh meat and vegetables, Australia and New Zealand save the United States a long haul across the Pacific. Australia has also been very co-operative in developing new lines of industry. The Australians have learnt to bone beef and pack it by hydraulic methods.” Air transport, added the admiral, was going to play a very great part in supplying the fleet. America was building planes which could carry 80001 b. The U.S. had developed new styles of packing and compressing dehydrated food to elimate weight. Declaring that the supply problem in the Pacific was now solved, the admiral said that enough supplies were now reaching the area to mount a large scale attack on the Japanese. ,