BRITAIN’S MEAT SUPPLIES

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25160, 16 April 1947, Page 7

BRITAIN’S MEAT SUPPLIES

DECREASE EXPECTED THIS YEAR

FOOD MISSION TO GO TO RUSSIA

(Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, April 14. Sir Henry Turner, Controller of the Food Ministry's Meat and Livestock Division, said he expected that supplies in 1947 would be down dramatically on 1946 supplies. The effect' of the shortage of homekilled supplies would be almost the same as if Britain did not get a single ounce from Argentina, he said. Tne Ministry had “gone to the ends of the earth” to get all the meat it could. The Geneva correspondent of the Associated Press quotes official British sources as saying that Mr Harold Wilson. the Secretary of Overseas Trade, will try to obtain wheat supplies from Russia so as to ease or possibly end bread rationing in Britain. Mr Wilson will consult the British Cabinet before flying to Moscow on April 18. The British sources said that wheat, timber, and food supplies, including canned goods, would head the list of commodities Britain would present to Russia.

“We are aware that Russia can become one of the most important world, markets for British consumer goods and may provide? a big part of the answer to cur dollar problem when she can spare more food. We do not expect to achieve miracles during the forthcoming exchanges but hope to establish Anglo-Russian trade more firmly than it has been since 1917,” said the officials.