MEATLESS DAYS IN BRITAIN.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15189, 9 April 1917, Page 4

MEATLESS DAYS IN BRITAIN.

A London cable on Saturday stated that Lord .Oevonpoi’t (the Food Controller) had isducu orders for the observance of a meatless day in London on Tuesdays and elsewhere on Wednesdays. Thus is an indication that the Government is dealing more effectively with the waste and extravagance whicn have hitherto been allowed to go on. A month or six weeks ago the Times reported that the consumption of meat throughout the United Kingdom had then been reduced to a considerable extent, and there was a general movement towards the voluntary adoption of a meatless day. liouseKeepers who found difficulty in providing a ' meat meal every day, if they are to keep within a weekly consumption of 2.Ub a head, were leaving meat out of the menu one day in each week, and the practice was spreading in London to the clubs, where its adoption was made easy by the fact that the members taking lunch and dinner there do so regularly. At the time of writing the disposition had been to select Friday as the meatless day. At the Constitutional Club, the consumption of meat generally was being cut down, and members were also limited to two small rolls of bread, weighing about 3oz. Boodle’s, Brook-,’, the 'travellers’, the St. James', White’s, and the Savage Club had also fallen into line, and at other institutions the committees were to consider the matter at their next meetingsMcmbers everywhere, says the Times, were accepting the meatless meals without complaint. The great London journal went on to say; it is perhaps necessary to repeat that a reduction in the consumption of bread is at least an urgent as the observance of the meat allowance. The tendency at the moment is to concentrate on a. limitation of the ruling of meat, probably because the majority of people have some idea of the quantity of meat they consume in a week, and are aware that in the past they have exceeded a ration of Few people, except the actual housekeepers, have any real knowledge of the weight of wheaten flour they eat. They get floor in the form of bread, puddings, cakes, and other food, and they would probably be surprised if they were told the exact total of their consumption. In most eases it would exceed the allotted 31 b. Workhouse and other dietary table* have shown how generous the bread and flour rations of public institution* have been in the past and it is probable that domestic catering ha* often been of a similarly snbfltantial character. One meatless day a week ha* been instituted at the Boyal Hospital for Incurables, Putney Heath.