Dehydrated Foods

HC Deb 25 January 1957 vol 563 cc77-8W

Mr. Hector Hughes

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how much in money value and weight of dehydrated food from his Department's experimental factory at Aberdeen was sent for the use of Hungarian refugees; what varieties of food were sent; how many meal-portions that dehydrated food provided when prepared for human consumption; where it was sent; how many Hungarian refugees were so fed; and in what places.

Mr. Heathcoat Amory

Seven hundred and twenty-five pounds of dehydrated meat and fish, representing about 9,300 meal portions, to an original value of £400, were given to the Women's

POSTAGE RATES FOR CORRESPONDENCE AND PARCELS FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM TO H.M. FORCES OVERSEAS WITH CORRESPONDING CIVILIAN RATES
EUROPE
—	H.M. Forces	Civilians
By Air:
"All-up services":			Foreign countries		Commonwealth countries
Letters (limit 4 lb.):
Not exceeding 1 oz.	2½d.	4d.		2½d.
Each additional oz.	1d.	2½d.		1d.
Postcards	2d.	2½d.		2d.
Air Parcels (limit 22 lb.)	No concessionary rates but letter packets up to 4 lb. may be sent at above rates.	Various rates according to destination.
			Examples:—
			First lb.
			Germany	Gibraltar	Malta
			s.	d.	s.	d.	s.	d.
			3	3	3	6	4	0
			Each additional lb.
			Germany	Gibraltar	Malta
			s.	d.	s.	d.	s.	d.
			1	9	3	0	3	6
By Surface Route:			Newspapers and Periodicals		Other Printed Papers
Printed Papers (limit 6½ lb.):
Up to 2 oz.	1d.	1d.			1½d.
Each additional 2 oz.	1d	½d.			½d.
Small Packets (limit 2 lb.):
Each 2 oz	1d.	1½d.
	(minimum charge 5d.)	(minimum charge 7½d.)
Parcels:			Various rates according to destination.
			Examples:—
			Germany	Gibraltar	Malta
Not exceeding:			s.	d.	s.	d.	s.	d.
2 lb	1s.	3d.	4	6	3	9	4	9
3 lb	1s.	3d.	6	6	3	9	4	9
7 lb	2s.	3d.	6	6	6	3	7	0
11 lb	3s.	6d.	8	9	9	3	10	3
22 lb	5s.	6d.	14	0	14	0	15	0

Voluntary Service and, I understand, consumed at the Hungarian refugee feeding centre at Gussing in Austria. This food was produced experimentally at the Aberdeen research establishment by a process now obsolete. It was in good condition but was no longer required for demonstration and experimental purposes.