FOOD FOR THE BBC
S a friendly gesture to their colleagues of the BBC members of the staff of the New Zealand Broadcasting Service have been sending them, since April last, a regular supply of food parcels which have been distributed by the BBC’s Welfare Office. They go to BBC staff membets who, through war conditions, have been injured or who are on extended sick leave. The BBC has supplied the NZBS with a list of the names of the recipients, but many of the people themselves have written their personal thanks. 2 Out of the sheaf of letters received, none is in anything but cheerful and optimistic vein, though all show how food parcels from New Zealand are needed and appreciated by the people of Britain. Here are some extracts: . "My husband has been with the BBC since 1930 and I, too, worked for the Corporation. He entered the Royal Navy in 1941 and later was discharged ill. After treatment he acted as courier to the BBC." The writer describes evacuation into the country and living in two small rooms under primitive conditions.
"We were without cooking facilities and I had to put the week-end meat and potatoes into a tin and carry them to the village bakery for cooking in the big oven, where our poor little piece of meat had to have the same roasting as the big joints of larger families,’ she says. "The effect on the meat, to say nothing of our palates, was curious to say the least. Quite a number of people did this at a charge of 3d." The writer tells of the food shortage, rationing, her search for accommodation per bicycle, her husband’s further illhealth, emphasises the real need for cooking fats and describes her struggle to save enough of these to make a Christmas pudding. Another letter refers to the parcel scheme as reducing the distance between New Zealand and Britain not so much by miles as by sincerity of thought. In most cases the parcels from the NZBS have gone to bombed-out people who, only now, are progressing towards rehabilitation,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 451, 13 February 1948, Page 13
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351FOOD FOR THE BBC New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 451, 13 February 1948, Page 13
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