FOOD STORAGE PLANTS
THIRD ITEM IK GOVERNMENT'S DEFENCE PLAN DEBATE IN HOUSE OF COMMONS (British Official Wireless.) Press 'Association—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, February 9. A’ private member’s motion urging the Government to undertake the building of new or an extension of the existing food storage plants immune from air attack was debated in the House of Commons. Sir Thomas Inskip, replying for the Government, said plans for emergency distribution of food had been practically completed. The needs of the defence services came first, homo production second, and food storage third. Home production of wheat, sugar, and other food supplies had increased. He assured the House that the Government recognised food storage as an important part of the plan for the maintenance of the national food supply. He declined to go into details, disclosure of which might affect prices, but he opposed the idea that the Government was being urged to build storage plants when the necessities of rearmament demanded the fullest use of the national building resources. The motion was defeated by 193 votes to 130.
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Evening Star, Issue 22880, 11 February 1938, Page 9
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175FOOD STORAGE PLANTS Evening Star, Issue 22880, 11 February 1938, Page 9
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