THE EMPIRE'S MEAT SUPPLY
SERIOUS POSITION DISCLOSED WORLD-WIDE SCARCITY AFTER THE WAR London} July 19. Mr. Lewis Harcourt, in the Bouse of Commons, said that while he was acting as President of the Board of Trade he acquired information causing, tim the greatest anxiety regarding the meat supply. After the war there would be a scarcity of meat in the world, amounting , to almost a world famine. Germany, Belgium, and Holland would be faced after the war with a deficit of 3,000,000 head of cattle, Denmark, Austria, StibU, and Rumania another 8,000,000. Europe would therefore have to seek to import sixteen to twonty million head. Britain produces only 60 per cent, of the meat she consumes. He was so impressed with the seriousness of the position that list year lie sought to arrange a scheme for securing a supply of chilled meat, auple for Britain for several years after the war. He inquired what progress had been made in this direction since.
Mr. Hylton replied that the Government was alive to the importance of the matter, but was unable to supply detailed information.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3142, 21 July 1917, Page 7
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