BRITAIN'S FOOD.
PREtWAR AND POST-WAR
WHEAT FROM THE EMPIRE
'United Press Association—Copyright.) : LONDON, January IG. Striking facts and figures about Britain's food supplies are contained in a Blue Book issued to-day,, dealing with the changes between pre-war and postwar supplies. The Minister of Agriculture "'adopts'for the purposes ot comparison 'the vears 1905 to \l9lO. and 1024 to 1927 'respectively as representing the .periods for which accurate statistics "are most readily available. The most notable fact emerging from the analysis is the extent by which Dominion supplies of food have increased. There has been a substantial increase in receipts of wheat from British countries, aiid, despite the diminution in contribution from home-grown wheat, the proportion of the total supplv derived from Empire sources in the post-war period exceeds GO per cent., compared with 50 per cent, id the pre-war period.' Post-war wheat and flour supplies from Canada are throe times the pre-war volume. Foreign consignments of moat to Britain, however, have increased.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 83, 18 January 1930, Page 5
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