FOOD RATIONS.
SCHEME COMPLETED.
British Machinery Ready In
Event Of War.
EXCLUSIVE STATE CONTROL. United Press Association. —Copyright. (Received 1.30 p.m.) LOXDOX, April 17. Food defence plans have been com pleted. They will be operable withi ten days. A Food Ministry after th outbreak of war will exclusively cor trol all food imported, besides solcl purchasing all home-produced foo< thus preventing profiteering. All price* will be strictly regulate* Smitlifield and Billingsgate markets, i order to defeat bombing, will be d< centra liseS. Some 1400 food committees throtigl out the country are being instructed Ii such a manner that the dispatch ' o telegrams will start the entire n.ach.nc Bacon, meat, condensed "L „-,-« margarine, cooking fats and sugar be rationed. fof three The country «»«"£ * food P I»»montlM under « * e "SSrfdei-' form* Nineteen million boiwe« readr . and 00.000,000 ration «™ |iernlii neHt « 'tenporary scheme will "-i Sen 50.000,000-
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 90, 18 April 1939, Page 9
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