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Evening Star, Issue 25745, 19 March 1946, Page 5

CANADIAN RELIEF MEASURES FOUR-YEAR PRODUCTION PLAN OTTAWA, March 17. Mr Mackenzie King, appealing to Canadians to reduce tood consumption to aid the world’s starving populations, outlined the following Government proposals for increasing food available for export:— (1) Fanners are urged to plan production to obtain the maximum yield of all foodstuffs in the next four years. (2) A campaign to encourage economy in the- use of wheat products, and also to increase the use of home gardens. (3) Modification of bulk shipments of flour and stock feed. (4) Bail transport priority for wheat for export. (5) A 10 per cent, reduction in wheat available for distilling. Mr King pointed _ out that in the three crop years ending July 31, 1946, Canada will have shipped the record amount of 1,000,000.000 bushels of wheat, aud Canadian farms wilf have produced enough wheat for Canada and the normal bread requirements for an additional 80,000,000 persons. Canada’s exports of other foods had greatly increased, and for almost the first time Canada had begun to produce enough lamb to permit export to Britain. PRACTICAL AID INSTRUMENT VALUE OF UMBRA NEW YORK, March 17. President Truman sent a letter to the opening session of the Unrra Council reaffirming Unrra as the United Nations’ best instrument for dealing with the critical world food situation. “ 1 am taking every practicable measure to ensure that the United States does not fall behind other supplying nations in providing foods so desperately needed by liberated countries,’’ he said. Representative Sol Bloom, speaking on behalf of Mr J. F. Byrnes, urged the council to act immediately to ensure an extension of Unrra beyond the end of 1946, the date decided by the last council meeting iu London in August, 1945. “It would be the world’s greatest calamity if after 1946 this work should fold up and Unrra cease to exist. Something must be done now,’’ he said. N.Z. REDEEMING PROMISE BUTTER AMD CHEESE REACH LIVESPSGL LONDON. .March 17. The Paparoa is unloading at Liverpool 3.500 tons of butter and 3,300 tons of cheese. These shipments, says the Exchange Telegraph, are yet another part of New Zealand’s promise to export to Britain 63,000 tons of meat, 25,000 tons of butter, and 23,000 tons of cheese by the end of March. The total value of the goods is £1,000,000. CONSIGNMENT FROM N.Z. (Itec. 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, Mar. 18. The Port Dunedin arrived wish 3,322 tons of butter, 2,212 tons of lamb, pork, and mutton, and 5,000 cases of tinned meat from New Zealand. The vessel picked up wool and hides from Australia en route.