THE FRUITS OF VICTORY
Food supplies are improving. We might even see oranges!
Britain’s food front is all right. stocks are so good that we have not yet touched the emergency supplies built up to meet invasion needs.
rations are safe in everything except milk for the rest of the year.
this cheery news was given to the House of Commons yesterday by Colonel John Llewellin, the Food Minister.
He backed it up by saying that the nation’s health had been well maintained, that young people were showing an increase of weight, and that there was ‘ some sign of the loss of middleaged spread’.
He also said he wants to get rid of meat and milk rationing as soon as possible after the war. the minister gave these details on rationed foods:
Ham: there is a little more about. More picnic hams are getting into the shops.
cheese: it is hoped to restore the ration from 2oz to 3oz before winter.
Fruit: We hope to get oranges from Palestine, south africa and spain; 17,000 tonnes of lemons, mainly from sicily; apples from Canada; dates from iraq; raisins from Cyprus and 32,000 tonnes of turkish dried fruit. Home soft fruits will be short owing to adverse weather. Blackcurrants may all go into puree. the quality of strawberry and gooseberry jam will be improved, but the quantity will be slightly less.
Sugar: Extra ration of one pound of sugar will be available this year for homemade jam, the same as last year.
Milk: the allowance will be cut from four pints to three pints a week for ordinary consumers on June 18, instead of July 4 last year.
Britain will make a generous contribution as long as its stocks allow to the immediate relief of food needs in the liberated territories.
THE QUEEN ATTENDS ABBEY SERVICE
THE Queen attended a short midday service of intercession at Westminster abbey yesterday.
She slipped in quietly, without any ceremony, and most of the congregation were unaware of her presence until afterwards.
MAN TO HANG FOR STABBING GIRL
THOMAS Michael Treacy was sentenced to death at essex assizes yesterday for the murder of Florence kathleen cornish, aged 18, of Fairfax drive, Westcliff. Miss cornish was found stabbed in Southend. Treacy declared he was innocent and said he had intended to marry the girl.
OFFICER TO ADOPT HIS OWN CHILDREN
a LIEUTENANT of the engineers was last night anxiously waiting to hear from his wife whether the War Office would recognise him as the father of his two children.
The officer, 35, married at a young age, but the marriage was a failure.
Later, he met another woman and lived with her. Two children, now 11 and eight, were born. He later married the mother. While he was in the ranks the army paid allowances for his wife and children.
Last december he was given a commission.
But the War Office stopped the allowances, saying that regulations would not permit allowances for officers’ illegitimate offspring.
until a judge accepts these two natural parents as the fosterparents of their own children, the War Office will not pay one penny towards maintenance. The solicitor representing the officer said: ‘My firm has never known such a strange tangle before.’