POST-WAR LIVING

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 120, 21 May 1920, Page 7

POST-WAR LIVING

SERIOUS WHEAT SHORTAGE

WAR BREAD MAY BE NECESSARY

FOOD MINISTER'S STATEMENT.

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(AU3. AND K.Z. CABLS ASSN. AM) REUTER.)

LONDON, 19th May.

The Food Controller, speaking in London, said that' before the abolition ol the food 1 control could be secured difficult periods must be passed. At the present moment the average prices of foodstuffs in Britain were at the highest point since the outbreak of the war. In consequence the 'netsonnl vvnge bill hadl increased in two years by 503 millions sterling. The prospective wheat crops were causing every Government in the world the^jrea-tssi anxiety. Substantial decreases were reyomst from North America, Australia, suit fcha Argentine, and the Argentine was considering the necessity of prohibiting the export of wheat! " Only th<? tttdisn crop showed a surplus, but it was uwuftkiont to balance the shortage frosi c\Uuw sources. It was quite possible that naiplo in Britain would have to eat. -bread of the quality only proacnibW during the moat difficult period of the war. He urged the people to cat New Zealand mutton and flour and breaH.