WASTED BREAD AND MEAT

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4007, 13 August 1915, Page 3

WASTED BREAD AND MEAT

; “We aro assured,” says the Statist, “that' the supply of Bread served out to tho troops is much greater than thev need , that, in fact, a good deal Ts literally thrown away. Hie same tiling is alleged in regard to meat supplies. Men are served with more meat than they can eat, and shame!ill waste -is the consequence. If °ur readers will think of it, they will see that waste in regard to bread and moat means unnecessary competition with the civil population. “If the Army has to he supplied with so much, meat and so much bread every day, when three-quarters perhaps is as much as is actually consumed. then a quarter of the daily supply is pure waste, which means that tlie country has to buy go much meat ana so much bread from foreign countries and throw it away absolutely without ! rrettino- any benefit from it. Hie poor [here at home have to pay, in conre--1 qUonco, extravagant prices, and tnc ' very poor have to stint themselves m what is really nourishing.”