FOOD PROBLEM.
BRIT AI N’S KEQ Lilli KM ENTS. STATEMENT BY CONTROLLER. LONDON, September 22. Loi'd Rhondda stales that, the minimum foodstuff requirements for BntMin from Hie United States and Canada during the ensuing year will be over 10,000,000 tons, of a value of £250,000,000. The bulk of that sum will bo expended on cereals, sugar, and meat. The danger of the food situation lies, less hi the submarines than in the world's food shortage. Owing to the stoppage of distillation and restriction on the clearances of spirits from bond whisky is realising extraordinary prices. Wellknown brands; have fetched JlOsi per dozen at auction compared with !2s before the war. Some Irish bulk whisky, six degrees underproof, fetched 118 s per gallon.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 September 1917, Page 6
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122FOOD PROBLEM. Greymouth Evening Star, 24 September 1917, Page 6
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