BRITAIN'S FOOD

Evening Star, Issue 16627, 9 January 1918, Page 6

BRITAIN'S FOOD

CONTROL OF MEAT. SOME.BUNGLING EVIDENT. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.' LONDON, January 8. The-'Daily Chronicle' states that a regulation is to be issued putting provincial butchers on half sitpplies of meat. Next week sheep price's will be controlled. ' January 7. The 'Evening Standard' publishes an interview with a refrigerating expert, who states that the Government have not added a single cubic foot of cold storage since the war began, and actually stopped the erection of some proposed storages. But for the efforts of Mr Wardle. Secretary to the Board of Trade, the Port of London's! store, holding 500,000 carcasses, would not have been completed. Sir T. Mackenzie received a deputation from the New Zealand Agents' Association, who complained that the Food Controller had taken New Zealand meat from the Board of Trade and was distributing it thirough the Wholesale Meat Supply Association, contrary to the terms of the original agreement, whereby the Board of Trade agreed to distribute it through agents nominated by the producers.' The deputation asserted "that the alteration, if it beoaimo permanent, would detrimentally affect the New Zealand trade, and asked that steps be taken to revert to the original terms. i Sir T. Mackenzie promised to approach, the Board of Trade. He assumed that this was an emergency measure.