STORES OF FOOD IN BRITAIN
10,000 SECRET DEPOTS (Rec. 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 13. The Ministry of Food is now the largest warehousing concern in the world, with 10,000 secret depots throughout the country, including 361 cold-stores. Many of these were not built for storage. One was a prison where 300 cells are now piled with cases of canned food and sacks of flour. Another was a dance-hall which now holds 700 tons of tea, margarine, flour and other foods. Others were a workhouse, a textile mill and a cabinet works. Many of these were closed down and the ministry absorbed the displaced workers in food-storage jobs. Many other stores were specially built, for instance one containing 1200 tons of butter and 3400 tons of meat, including 60,000 carcasses of New Zealand lamb and 5000 carcasses of Australian pork. Butter and meat will keep for two years in these stores and bacon for a year.
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Southland Times, Issue 24593, 15 November 1941, Page 7
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