FOOD FOR BRITAIN

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 72, 22 September 1939, Page 9

FOOD FOR BRITAIN

DOMINION'S DUTY

APPEAL TO ALL CONCERNED

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

"Britain will require every pound of meat, dairy produce, and wool that New Zealand can produce, and all methods to increase production of war necessities must be ardently pursued," said the chairman of directors, Mr. H. E. Worsp, at the annual meeting of the Auckland Farmers' Freezing Company. "There is a great responsibility on every New Zealander tp spare ho effort to assist the Mother Country in her time of acute need," he said. "On farm, factory, wharf, and in all other directions there will be no room for the slacker. All work must be honourably and loyally carried on. Farm- ! ers must be supplied with willing ! workers, and there must be no laxity of the effort of dairy factory, freezing works, and wharf operations. The quickest turn-round must be given overseas, vessels. A shortage of ships, delays from the convey system, and a dislocation of food supplies from neutral countries make this imperative. "I am glad that in the company's permanent staff are men of the right calibre; men who are keen to serve the community to the very best of their ability." Mr. Worsp explained that during the war the surplus principal primary products above New Zealand's own requirements are to be purchased by the New Zealand Government for sale to the British Government at prices to be agreed upon by the two Governiments. ~' '.

AUCKLAND, This Day,