FOOD RESERVES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 November 1941, Page 6

FOOD RESERVES

HUGE STORES IN BRITAIN SECRET DEPOTS THROUGHOUT COUNTRY. INCLUDING FORMER PRISON. (By Telegraph—Press-Association— Copyright) LONDON, November 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, but its 300 cells are now piled with cases of canned food and sacks of flour. Another was a dance hall, and it is now holding 700 tons of tea, margarine, flour and other foods. Others were a workhouse, textile mill and a cabinet W’orks. Many of these closed-down works have absorbed the displaced workers in- the food-storage jobs. Many other stores have been specially built, for instance, one which contains 1200 tons of butter and 3400 tons of meat, including 60.000 carcases of New Zealand lamb and 5000 carcases of Australian pork. The butter and meat can keep for two years in these stores and bacon for one year.