EXTRA FOOD FOR BRITAIN

Evening Star, Issue 25895, 12 September 1946, Page 10

EXTRA FOOD FOR BRITAIN

R.S.A. INDIVIDUAL PARCELS SCHEME TOWN AREAS TO BE ADOPTED " (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 11. At the last meeting of the New Zealand Returned Services Association’s Dominion Executive keen disappointment was expressed at the Prime Minister’s refusal of the association’s request that further compulsory rationing should be applied so that additional food could be sent to Britain, says a statement issued by the New Zealand Returned Services Association to-night. After discussing the best means of ensuring that the people of Britain would obtain extra food, it was resolved that the association should support a scheme of posting individual parcels to exservicemen in Britain. Such a scheme is now operated by the Rotorua Returned Services Association, and the association is asking all 99 branches to follow the same course. The association is communicating with the British Empire Service League in London asking that the British Legion .should be requested to cable to 'the association a list of 100 towns or areas in which the legion is represented, together with the names and addresses of the most, necessitous ex-servicemen’s families in such towns or areas. When the names are received Dominion headquarters will ask each one of the branches to adopt an area and forward individual food parcels to the families whose names are supplied. The statement appeals to branch associations to get behind the scheme, but adds that nothing should be done until a reply, has been received from the British Empire Service League.