. Besieged by the Boers; a diary of life and events in Kimberley during the siege . The day beforethe new arrangement began every householderhad to send in a notice stating the number ofadults and children that there were in his fam-ily and the quantity of meat he wished to draw,so that when he applied for his supply his de-mand could be checked from the list made outfrom all the requisitions. He was then givena numbered card, with the quantity he was en-titled to stamped upon it and properly signedso that in future he would just have to showthis card and there would be no further d
. Besieged by the Boers; a diary of life and events in Kimberley during the siege . The day beforethe new arrangement began every householderhad to send in a notice stating the number ofadults and children that there were in his fam-ily and the quantity of meat he wished to draw,so that when he applied for his supply his de-mand could be checked from the list made outfrom all the requisitions. He was then givena numbered card, with the quantity he was en-titled to stamped upon it and properly signedso that in future he would just have to showthis card and there would be no further distribution began at 6 on the wanted to go and fetch our supply, butI did not care for her to do so; but I had beenout in the night and was tired, so we neitherof us went that day, as we had enough meaton hand. Being the first day, all the arrange-ments were strange and the tickets had to bemade out, so that it took a long while. Butit was better than the previous indiscriminatefighting. Next day I went about 6 andfound I was pretty late, crowds being there. THE FOOD PROBLEM 85 before me. I came near the tail of thestring. My ward, No. 2, and another, No. 6,are each of them quite three times the size ofany of the others, so these wards were not halfdone when the others were all served, and wewere consequently at a disadvantage. I tookover an hour to draw my pound of meat thatday. All dealings are for cash, gd. a poundbeing the fixed price. The officer in charge of all food matters,Major Gorle, is an intelligent man, and saw atonce that it would not do to put the two bigwards in a worse position that the small ones,so for the third morning he arranged that thetwo big wards should draw two days supplyone day, and on the next day the four smallones should do the same. This course hur-ried things up a good deal, for half of the peo-ple had to be served every day instead of thewhole of them. That day I left the houseabout , and was back very soon after six.
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