BRITISH FOOD POSITION
EGGS, TEA, AND MILK (8.0. W.) RUGBY. Sept. 15. The Minister of Food (Lord woolton) said that of 21,700,000 eggs distributed in a month, only 1,100,000 had been imported. He added that the public must realise that the Government had deliberately, as a result of the shipping position, decided that it could get a wider distribution of food values' by using dried eggs, therefore it was no longer endeavouring to find shipping space for imported shell eggs on a large scale. Lord Woolton said that all the exportable surplus of the tea 'crops in India, Ceylon and East Africa would be allocated in future to the United Nations and neutral countries. The public in Britain must not assume that they would get more. On the contrary, in the interests of the United Nations, and in order to secure a fair distribution, Britain had agreed to forgo a certain amount. The Minister added that it was hoped to have three times as much powdered milk on sale this winter as last.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23745, 17 September 1942, Page 5
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