FOOD FOR SOLDIERS
MEAT FEOM COLONIES
HOME-KILLED TOO DEAR
(Received February '12, noon.) LONDON, February 11. Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr. Alfred Duff Cooper, Secretary for War, said that just over £400,000 was spent last year on the purchase of Dominion frozen meat for -the Army and Air Force at home, and £2000 on the purchase of fresh meat. The. extra cost of supplying home-killed instead of Dominion meat was estimated at about £350,000 a year which, apart from administrative difficulties, was j prohibitive so far as the Army funds were concerned. .
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1936, Page 11
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94FOOD FOR SOLDIERS Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1936, Page 11
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