FATS FOR BRITAIN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26746, 15 April 1948, Page 4

FATS FOR BRITAIN

SMALL GIFTS WELCOMED MR BARLING’S SCHEME A correspondent, “Farmer's Wife” (Tuapeka Mouth), writing with reference to Mr Philip Barling’s scheme for the collection of edible fat for Britain, which is now to be adopted nationally, suggests, as a farmer’s wife long interested in sending fat" to Britain, that the tins to be distributed should be half the size of the petrol tins used at the present time. More women would agree to take the smaller tins, she adds, and the fat would be much fresher when it reached its destination.

When the suggestion was referred to Mr Barling, he informed the Daily Times that, although it was very much more costly to provide the small tins, it was intended to comply with a similar suggestion from the British Food Ministry that some small packages should be included in the consignments being forwarded. Mr Barling added that it was very necessary in this connection to avoid waste of shipping space, and only square tins of standard size could be used economically. “We always welcome small contributions, because we have the facilities for rendering them into larger containers,” Mr Barling said, “ and we make a point of labelling them with the addresses of the donors, although this is hardly possible in case of very small gifts, which we regard as the widow’s mite. These, however, are received with the same appreciation by the recipients in Great Britain, to whom the Food Minister refers as the ‘ poor and needy,’ in many cases living