VITAL FOODSTUFFS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20135, 3 January 1940, Page 9

VITAL FOODSTUFFS

BRITAIN WELL SUPPLIED LIQUID MILK SURPLUS CANADA’S BIG HARVEST (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) {British Official Wireless.) Reed. 9 a.m. RUGBY, Jan. 1. Broadcasting on the subject of "The people’s food in war-time,” Sir John Boyd Orr, a distinguished nutrition authority, said: “We are a better fed and a healthier nation to-day than we were at the beginning of the last war.” Referring to the position of the supply of milk, Sir John 'said that we have a great surplus of liquid milk being used for manufacturing purposes which might well be diverted to human consumption, and that we were producing enough milk to permit of an increase of 20 per cent in consumption and yet have considerable surplus.

Speaking of two vital foodstuffs which Britain had to continue to import—wheat and fat—Sir John recalled that Canada had had a bumper wheat harvest. She had twice as much as the whole of Germany, and thus we were enabled to obtain plenty of wheat by the safest and shortest sea route. The Ministry of Food had built up an enormous store of fat. "We could cut down our imports to wheat and fat, which would only be a mere fraction of the total imports in peace-time, and still have a national diet which would keep everybody healthy and physically fit,” he contended.