BEER FOR TROOPS
Does Not Take Food Space On Transports
An assurance has been received officially by the National Patriotic Fund Board that no foodstuffs of any kind have been shut out of transport ships to make space for beer. The board has been advised that all food requirements of the New Zealand Forces overseas are given priority of loading.
The sending of beer to the troops has nothing to do. with the National Patriotic Fund or the provincial .patriotic councils, it is stated, being purely a private matter between brewery com panics and the canteen authorities in Egypt, but at the recent conference of patriotic bodies in Wellington the question of whether beer was shipped to the exclusion of foodstuffs' was discussed Mrs. J Hargest, wife of Brigadier Hargest, asked that an investiga tion be made the position.
Mr. G. Hayden, secretary of rhe board, stated \esterday afternoon that inquiry had been made and official advice had been received that' foodstuffs camo first and that no foodstuffs had been shut out on the transport
ships to make way for beer.
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Camp News, Volume 2, Issue 79, 27 June 1941, Page 4
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