FIFTY MILLION GIFT PARCELS FOR BRITAIN
LONDON, Feb. 21. The Minister of Food, Mr John Strachey, announced in the House of Commons that sweets rationing would end on April 24. Mr Strachey, in a statement to the House, said that in the three years ended December 31 last, 54,000 tons of gift food had been received from the Commonwealth and the colonies for' distribution to the people in most need. Since 1939 more than 50,000,000 gift food parcels had come direct to individuals through the post from the Commonwealth and the Colonies. 1
Mr Strachey added that 4570 501 b tins of cooking fat had been received under the Commonwealth gift food scheme from the National Patriotic Fund of New Zealand.
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Grey River Argus, 23 February 1949, Page 7
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