Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Ministry of Supply. – in the House of Commons at on 21 February 1940.
Mr Edward Burgin
, Luton
The Salvage Department of the Ministry of Supply has called for monthly salvage returns from those local authorities whose districts have a population of 10,000 or over. There are 11 such boroughs and urban districts in the county of Lincolnshire. Of these local authorities, four have submitted returns showing that kitchen waste suitable for pig feeding is being salved. These four local authorities are the boroughs of Louth and Scunthorpe, where kitchen waste is being collected by the local pig keepers themselves; the borough of Cleethorpes, where 6 cwts. was salved in each of the months of November and December, 1939, and 12 cwts. in January, 1940; and the urban district of Gainsborough, which salved 68 lbs. in January, 1940. I am hoping that with increasing realisation of the importance of salvage there will be a great improvement in these figures.