FOOD CRISIS IN BRITAIN
SHOP QUEUES IN LONDON
BUTTER CARTS HELD UP
London, November i. ' Queues are formed outside many London provision shops owing to the shortace of tea, sugar, butter, and margarine. The shopkeepers limit customers purchases. Meat prices are being lowered. Llandilo colliers stopped the bntter carts, declaring that local wants were not supplied. The police are inducing the owners to sell half the butter locallv. They formed queues and acted M sellers, disposing of tho butter in. 6ingle pounds. , . \ Sir Arthur Yopp, Director of 1-ood Economy, has announced the formation of a league of national safety, to promote food economy. Members. have to Sen an undertaking to help victory bj preventing waste.-lus.-N.Z. Cable Assn
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 36, 6 November 1917, Page 5
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117FOOD CRISIS IN BRITAIN Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 36, 6 November 1917, Page 5
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