[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR]
SIR,—Amongst the various schemes for food supply in wartime the simplest one, storage by private individuals, seems to have been overlooked.
I suggest that the big stores should provide cases containing, say, t cwt. or I cwt. of meat, tea, sugar, sardines, and perhaps butter and flour, in balanced proportions, and all in hermetically sealed tins. If the Government were to advise all house- holders who could do so to lay in one Or more of these cases, there would no doubt be a general response. Even if, should war come, it only meant the saving of the cargo space of a dozen ships it would be well worth while. This scheme would have the advantages that such food supplies would be practically immune from enemy action, and would not be affected by trans- port dislocation, while, finally, it would not cost the Government a penny.—Yours faithfully, St. Andrews, Warminster, Wilts. E. P. YEATES, Major.
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