23 OCTOBER 1942, Page 14

FOOD WASTAGE

Sta,—I recently came across, in a town far from here, what seems to me, in its particular quality, the most shocking instance of war-time waste in my experience. Shopkeepers selling bread were burning loaves left unsold. Bakers do not take them back, and it is punishable, it seems, to feed them to pigs or poultry. They burn down, my informant said, to a greyish ash on the fire. Burning bread!—Your obedient servant, The Rectory, Letchington, Oxford. D. G. DAVIES.