Britain Tired Of Invalids' Diet

Wanganui Chronicle, 28 October 1948, Page 5

Britain Tired Of Invalids' Diet

LONDON, Oct 27 (Recd 6 pm).— Addressing a conference of the Meat Traders’ Association at Blackpool, Sir Henry Turner, director of meat supplies for the Ministry of Food, said it would be a bold man who could prophesy when it would be possible to end meat rationing in Britain. Britain could look forward, however, to a steady improvement in supplies, though improvement might not be very noticeable during the coming year. Even under the most favourable conditions the carcase meat ration could not return to prewar quantity for a year or two. To return to the pre-war meat ration the Ministry of Food must not only supply an extra 4d worth of carcase meat a week, but also provide for a 2,000,000 increase in the population. These two factors together meant that an additional 600,000 tons of meat was required annually. Mr J. I. Partington, president of the Meat Traders’ Federation, said: “What this nation needs today, more than anything else, is a departure from an invalid’s diet of bread and milk, to more solid, sustaining, satisfying and succulent helpings of the roast beef of Old England, tender slices of early spring lamb and the almost forgotten flavour of luscious roast pork.”