"GROW MORE FOOD IN BRITAIN"
LORD BEAYERBROOK'S NEW CAMPAIGN Jil<; J-'OOD DL'TIES t'UtJEJ) (Received May 27, 11.40 p.m.) LONDON, May 27. Lord Beaverbrook. in the "Daily Express," has started a campaign to grow more food in Britain. He urges that there should be an <:nd to the policy of Mr W. E. Elliot (Minister for Agriculture) of regulating and restricting the output (if food from British farms, and favours development by tariffs. Lord Beaverbrook suggests thai a duty of 2d a pound on imported I'oreign meat would bring in £9,000,000 a year if Argentine imports were maintained. The duty on eggs, he says, should be 33 per cent., and on poultry 6d a pound.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21484, 28 May 1935, Page 11
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