FOOD QUEUES IN BRITAIN
ROOM FOR IMPROVED DISTRIBUTION
THE JUMP IN PRICES
London, December 19. The prevalence of food queues throughout tbe country is almost entirely flue to the insufficient distribution of supplies. In many instances women make it a business of standing in the queues and afterwards selling what they Ret. to their neighbours at a profit. The only problem awaiting solution is a more systematic distribution. The official Labour Gazette estimates tiiat rood, rent, clothiug, fuel and light used by the working class family is, on an average, 85 per cent, higher than before the war; while the average advance of secondary foodstuffs, excluding coffee, is between 140 and 150 per cent. Ifood prices in Norway aro 114 per cent, above pre-war rates, and in the United Kingdom 105 per cent. These countries head the world's list. New Zealand is lowest, with 27.4 per cent.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 74, 20 December 1917, Page 7
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149FOOD QUEUES IN BRITAIN Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 74, 20 December 1917, Page 7
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