RATIONS BY AIR.
FOR TROOPS IN NEW GUINEA. SYDNEY, Oct. 7. Scores of women have responded to the urgent call by the Commonwealth Government for factory workers needed to prepare special concentrated food for the Australian front line troops in N©av Guinea. Concentrated food is packed in parcels about eight inches square. These parcels are doopped from planes to the troops; advancing over the Owen Stanley Ranges. Tea tablets, soup tablets, meat and vegetable extracts and dried fruit are included in each package and the contents may be eaten in their concentrated form or converted into soups and steAvs by being heated Avith Avater.
The delivery of rations in this form is reducing supply difficulties in the mountains and has enabled much faster progress by the Australian forces than Avould have been possible hatl the normal iron rations (bully beef and biscuits) to be brought forward by native carriers.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 306, 8 October 1942, Page 3
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