CONTROL OF FOOD
BRITISH MINISTRY’S PLANS. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] (Received April 18, 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, April 17. Food defence plans, have been completed. and will be operable within ten days. The Food Ministry, after an outbreak of war, will exclusively control all food imported, besides being the sole purchaser of all homeproduced food, thus preventing profiteering. All prices will be strictly regulated. The Smithfield and Billingsgate markets, in order to defeat bombings, will be decentralised. Fourteen hundred food committees throughout the country are being instructed in such a manner that the despatch of telegrams will start the entire machine.
Bacon, meat, condensed milk, butter, margarine, cooking fats, and sugar will be rationed. The country can carry on for three months. Under the temporary food plan, 19,000,000 householders’ forms and 00,000,000 ration cards are ready, but the Government’s permanent scheme will replace this temporary scheme, if the latter does not previously come into operation. The total of ration cards will then be 80,000,000-
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GEST19390418.2.50
Bibliographic details
Greymouth Evening Star, 18 April 1939, Page 7
Word Count
164CONTROL OF FOOD Greymouth Evening Star, 18 April 1939, Page 7
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Greymouth Evening Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.