BRITAIN'S FOOD

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 30, 5 February 1941, Page 6

BRITAIN'S FOOD

CONSERVING SUPPLIES

MEAT REDUCED

ARMY'S NEED

The rationing of meat in England, which has directly affected New Zealand, is regarded as a precautionary measure not only in saving shipping space, but in storing food for possible) Army requirements in the Middle East and other theatres of-war.

Correspondents, writing from England, state that English consumers still have a wide selection of meat foods in the pork and offal series still obtainable, and the Government is developing its import of frozen cod fish, salmon, halibut, haddock, and skatewings, as well as frozen fillets from Canadian waters. The control of fruit prices insures the . consumer against profiteering of this variable supply, and it is expected that this year much greater use will be made of home fruit resources, while foreign fruit may be greatly displaced by Empire varieties. The Minister of Food, it is added, has decided that in future the tin-opener should be brought out only in an emergency, so that it is clear that the present drive is to be for the consumption of home foods.

The cold stores of Great Britain, which, in the circumstances, have so far sustained comparatively trifling damage from air raids, are well filled with meat and dairy produce.