SERVICEMEN'S HOSTELS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 302, 21 December 1943, Page 4

SERVICEMEN'S HOSTELS

Some servicemen's hostels were in a better position than others as a result of the strike, this depending on whether there were any electric or coal ranges. The usual method of preparing meals was by gas. At the Carrie Hostel this morning breakfast included boiled eggs prepared by electricity, but the facilities do not enable any large-scale cooking by this method, and the other meals were served cold. Arrangements have been made at this hostel for a Christmas dinner to be served to approximately 120 soldiers, sailors and airmen, and a quantity of food already has been donated for this purpose, but it is not known at present whether the dinner can be proceeded with. Although there is no electricity at the Salvation Army Red Shield Hostel a coal range is being used to good purpose. Tha position is similar at the YMC.A., where, although gas is the normal means of cooking, a range has become the sole method of preparing food. However, this is by no means sufficient for the needs of the hostel and is merely a makeshift arrangement. Two extremely small electric stoves are in use at the Toe H Servicemen's Club, but sgain they are quite incapable of being used to prepare the usual number of hot meals.