FEEDING OF BRITISH CHILDREN
(8.0.W.) RUGBY, October 21. An extension of the feeding arrangements for school children was announced today. Speaking in the House of Lords the Minister of Food, Lord Woolton, said a great increase in the number of meals served in schools would be brought about by an increased financial grant from the Treasury to local authorities and by bringing into immediate action the cooking depots which had been set up for meeting the emergency feeding of the civil population should the occasion arise. There would shortly be 250 of these depots with a capacity for serving 400,000 meals daily to children. In addition 4000 meal centres already established in cities and industrial areas would be made available. Lord Woolton recalled the measures
taken to assure adequate milk for children up to 17 years of age both in the schools and their homes and added that special steps had been taken—in which the generosity of the United States had played a great part—to make up the shortage of fresh fruit by the supply and distribution to children of fruit juices.
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Southland Times, Issue 24573, 23 October 1941, Page 5
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