SHIPS HOUSEKEEPING
By the courtesy of the Purser we publish approx, astronomical quantities of food etc. consumed on this ship since leaving N.Z. Cereals - - - 3g Tons Flour - - -47 -I I ~ Preserved Fruit - 8 Jam - - 7 „ Sugar - - - 11 Tea - - -2 > „ Vegetables, Fresh & Presd. - 28 „ Butter - - - 8 Cheese - - - 3| „ , Eggs - .<• - 50,000 No. Milk - - - 6 Tons Potatoes - - 56 „> / Fresh Fruit - 60,000 Pieces - Meat - - 118,000 lbs. (or the equivalent of 77 oxen or 1966 Sheep or 1100 Pigs Sausages ; - - A 2i Miles Cigarettes - 2,750,000 No. Cigarette.& Pipe Tobacco.- 4,000 lbs. Tinned Fruits 36,000 Tins No. of Meals served: 430,000 Purser
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Down the Hatch, Issue 8, 19 February 1944, Page 4
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96SHIPS HOUSEKEEPING Down the Hatch, Issue 8, 19 February 1944, Page 4
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