Label from gift food parcel sent from Australia to England - number 1

The recipient of this food parcel is unknown, but lived at 85 St. Andrews Rd in Worthing, West Sussex. It is likely that they were family members or friends of the sender.
If the parcel was not able to be delivered to that address, it was to be forwarded to Miss Anne Agatha Mayo, who was presumably an intermediary who volunteered for the British Red Cross Society, receiving and distributing food parcels. Anne was born 27 November 1881, one of 12 children born to James Mayo and Anne Andrews. She lost two brothers during World War One and never married. She had various occupations, including room proprietoress, cake maker and freelance journalist. She was living at the address written on the label, 2 Graham Rd Worthing in West Sussex from at least 1939.
The sender of the parcel was Louisa Margaret Woodall (nee Frye), born in Taradale, Victoria in 1913. She married Clive Grenville Woodall in 1945, prior to sending the parcel from the address shown in Castlemaine.

The items included in these food parcels would have been rationed in the United Kingdom after World War Two, and so would have been greatly welcomed. An article describing rationing overseen by the British Ministry of Food is attached as a supplementary file.
Several items are held in the collection relating to this time, including ration books, Ministry of Food Bakelite bowls and spoons, and a dried milk tin.