LONDON NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 4 January 1918, Page 5

LONDON NEWS.

MEAT SUPPLIES

COM&f ANDEERING OF CATTLE

AUTHORISED.

J-.ABORS RECONSTRUCTION POLICY.

LONDON, Jan, '2,

An 'fcsrly me%& famine was threatened <wiug to th* farmers refusing to send cattle to market under the new order regulating tht price of cattle on the 'basis .of live weight, but Lord Rhondda empt-ivered fche commissioners to comma rj-.&f-.er whtjevcr farmers withhold cattle. Labor's report on' the reconstruction policy urges the universal enforcement of a national minimum wagej democratic control of industry; a- revolution in the methods of national finance; and the acquisition of surplus wealth for tbe common good.