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Otago Witness, Issue 3314, 19 September 1917, Page 24

Two Riverton mothers were removed to ths hospital within the past few days suffering from diphtheria. Commissioner H. C. Hodder, speaking about the war activities of the Salvation Army, said that immediately the British Government intimated to the public the need for economy in food- the Army got to work, and within five weeks opened, in the crowded centres of London, 32 communal kitchens, and provided dinners containing the maximum of nutriment at a minimum cost. The result was that some 17,000 families immediately availed themselves of that practical lesson in eoonomy. Later, several commrtinal kitchens were opened in large provincial towns throughout England, and became the standard for those established by the Government, who sent officers to inspect and report on their working.