THE FOOD PROBLEM.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14143, 21 July 1916, Page 5

THE FOOD PROBLEM.

DIFFICULTIES IN DISTRIBU-

TION

COMMUNAL FEEDING IN BERLIN

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)

London, July 19

The food problem in -Germany contimies acute. Herr Batocke failed to persuade the Southern States to permit the exportation of foods in order to secure equal distribution. The Prussian authorities strongly resent the action of the Southern Governments.

Owing to the failure of the kitchens on wheels the problem of communal feeding in Berlin is being solved by huge public dining halls: The first kitchen has 63 boilers, h01ding..,30,000. litres of food. Hundreds of women are employed preparing meals 3 using electrical potato-cutting machines, gas stoves and other' labour saving appliances. Specially constructed motor cars carry the food to the distribution

depots

The following is a week's bill of fare: Monday, rice and potatoes; Tuesday, meat; Wednesday, beans and fat; Thursday, meat and macaroni; Friday, beans and potatoes; Sunday, minced meat and potatoes.' A portion equal to a ],itr6 isv sold for 4d, and 250,000 litres are sold daily in Berlin. The better class people are willing to rub shoulders with the humblest in the common dining halls.

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