FOOD SITUATION

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 167, 17 July 1941, Page 7

FOOD SITUATION

Britain's Supplies Secure In Spite Of U-Boats J-ESS MALNUTRITION LONDON, July 16. The Minister of Food, Lord Woolton, stated in the House of Lords that there were fewer people suffering from malnutrition at the end of the second year of war than there were in days of peace. This was due to tl A Government securing not only an adequacy of supplies but also an adequacy of distribution according to people's needs. We could to-day. therefore, in the middle of the war, say we were in a position of comparative security, Lord Woolton said.

"In spite of the blows we have sustained, and. indeed, thev have been many because of the t '-boats, we stand alone among the nations at war," he said, "in being able to increase rations and the allocations we are making for the manufacture of food. Moreover, we can l<x>k into the future with confidence."'

Lord Woolton added that the purpose of food control was to secure that small quantities disappeared down a multitude of throats rather than that a large quantity should disappear down the throats of a small number of people who could afford to pay. Control multiplied ten and twentyfold the number of people who could afford to buy a particular article of food and that was the reason why it disappeared from the shops