FOOD RATIONING
Position In Britain
i British Official Wireless.) (Received May 20. 7.5 p.m.)
RUGBY. May 28.
Confidence in Britain's food position was affirmed by the Minister of Food. Lord Woolton, in the House of Lords when he said *. “We have suffeied but we emerge from the winter in a position as strongly secured in our food supplies as 12 months ago.” Stating that one object of rationing was to give every individual a prescriptive right to obtain an equal share of the rationed commodity. Lord Woolton announced that he was about T o start a new system of experimental ration ing. He would presently ration eggs and, whether from force of necessity or not, be believed he would ration milk, but he hoped never to have to ration bread.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 208, 30 May 1941, Page 8
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