4 APRIL 1941, Page 5

With all the talk about Army waste, an occasional hard

fact has its uses. Here is a case heard in a police-court in Surrey last week. A butcher's foreman was charged with buying a quantity of meat valued at £1I los., issued for the use of soldiers and the property of the Government. It was stated in evidence by a lorry-driver wearing R.A.F. uniform that his daily job was to collect stores from an R.A.S.C. depot ; the butchers at the depot told him they had meat to spare which was surplus to the amount required for Army rations, and asked him to sell it for them and share the proceeds. The butcher's foreman, who bought three consignments of meat from the lorry-driver, was fined £20. The soldiers involved have apparently been dealt with by the Army authorities.

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