HUNGRY WORLD

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 85, 7 October 1943, Page 6

HUNGRY WORLD

LORD WOOLTON'S WARNING A warning that a world-wide food shortage is in prospect was given in London by Lord Woolton, Food Minister, states a cable to the Sydney "Sun" from London. The world's appetite has increased, and all the food that is being produced is being eaten. "The most important task ahead," he said, "is the encouragement of foodproducing countries throughout the world to produce even more, particularly meat,,dairy goods, and eggs." Immediate food supplies for Britain have been secured, but Lord Woolton has also to arrange for shipments to alleviate starvation in countries taken over by the Allies. "Through war incomes, a vast portion of the British and American public are at present able, for the first time in their lives, to buy sufficient food. We have arrived at a point in the war where there is an actual increase in the public's consuming power," continued Lord Woolton. "Agricultural communities are prospering and eager to purchase manufactured goods in exchange for money earned in producing food. The greater the demand for food the greater is the prosperity of the whole community." Lord Woolton added that, since rationing, the underfed one-third of the British population was most certainly better off. The feeding of children in schools and cheap ' meals at workers' canteens and British restaurants had been highly successful. If the public desired, they would be continued after the war.

Lord Woolton expressed the opinion that one war food which would continue to be popular in peacetime was mashed potato powder, which, within 12 'seconds, prbduces ."potatoes '■ you could wish for."

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