NATIONAL GRANARIES SUGGESTED
(Received April 26, 8 a.m.)
LONDON, 25th April, In the House of Commons, the-debate on the Corn Production Bill showed a. strong Liberal opposition to the proposal to guarantee minimum prices to the farmer. The Nationalists support the Government,
Mr, Runciman paid that national security would be better achieved by storing wheat in national .granaries holding enough for three years' consumption. It was reported that flic authorities were reducing the bread ration of the Army owing to the shortage of wheat and flour, and the meat ration was being correspondingly increased. The stocks; of meat had been recently raised owing tft" the killing of cattle to save feeding sjftffs and the system of meatless day?.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 99, 26 April 1917, Page 7
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