APPENDIX 15
SCALE AND AVERAGE COST OF DRY RATIONS AND COOKED MEALS
Item
ON 31ST MARCH, 1959
(See paragraph 64)
Dry Rations (Happy Valley and Yau Ma Tei Centres)
Cooked Meals
Cost
(All Six Welfare Centres)
Quantity †
Cost
Quantity *
Meat
2 oz.
or Anchovy
or other Fresh Fish
4 02.
or Canned Fish
or Fu Yu
Vegetables
Rice
Tea
Peanut Oil
Salt
Firewood
Diesoline
,,
:
Total cost per head
per day
* For two meals per day,
† For one meal per day.
1 02.
2.02.
8 oz.
4 oz.
10 or 12 oz.
$0.215
5 or 6 oz.
$0.1075
12
02.
0.216
6
02.
0.108
1/12 oz.
0.007
1/24 oz.
0.003
1/2 oz.
0.028
1/4 oz.
0.014
1
02.
0.003
1/12 oz.
0.001
32
02.
0.101
10 gal. for 800
meals
0.010
$0.570
APPENDIX 16
LARGE SCALE RELIEF FOOD DISTRIBUTION BY INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES *
1ST APRIL, 1958 to 31st March, 1959
(See paragraph 66)
Organization
Catholic Relief Services...
Church World Service
Co-operative for American Remittances to Every-
where Inc. (C.A.R.E.)
Lutheran World Federation
Total
$0.244
Approximate
Amount (Short tons)
No. of Persons
Assisted
5,660.16
867,401
3,858.32
185,500
544.05 †
8,270
5,964.20
77,217
16,026.73
1,138,388
* Main commodities distributed are rice, flour, milk powder, beans, cornmeal. + Excluding 233,010 locally purchased food packages.
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