MEAT RATIONING

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 127, 24 February 1944, Page 4

MEAT RATIONING

Influence On Invasion Of Europe

“British fighting forces don’t fight on a diet of synthetic pills.” said Squadron Leader A. George, D.F.C., D.F.M., R.A.F., in an address last night oij the subject of meat rationing here and its effect on England. “Speaking personally,” he went on, “I shouldn’t care to go out on an operational flight without a good meal first, a solid diet that will give me the utmost in physical stamina—a diet that has its proper proportion of meat.” „ , , Squadron Leader George, who has recently returned from 'active service in England, summed up the story of what meat rationing in this country will mean to the people at Home, and in particular to the fighting services, many of them New Zealanders, who must live on the resources of the United Kingdom and what we and other countries can supply in audition. “With England about to become a springboard for the greatest invasion the world has ever known, he said, , the vast invasion forces will have to be ted from the moment, they arrive m Bngland, and fed from England when they leave her shores This is going to be a tremendous fight calling for immense quantities of fighting food—of good red meat —such as this country can supply. The appreciation of the people of the Old Country of New Zealanders efforts in rationing themselves was commented on as a result of personal experience. “England, even more than some sections of our own community, knows what New Zealand is doing in the general effort, he said. “I learned this from Englishmen everywhere—in the forces, the clubs, the bars, the cabarets and meeting them socially and in the street. They are deeply appreciative. What we can do here m the way of rationing meat and other products will have a most important and growing effect on rhe great war offensive that must soon he mounted