EMERGENCY MEASURE.
PURCHASE OF COMMODITIES. Received May 27, 1.5 a.m. LONDON, May 26. Tho Government has introduced in the House of Commons an Essential Commodities Bill, regularising past purchases of wheat, sugar, and whale oil and in the event of war authorising future purchases of food, fertilisers, animal feeding stuffs, petroleum products, and the erection of storage warehouses. A fund would "be- created, into which would be paid sums periodically voted by Parliament. MINISTERS MEET COUNCIL. PROGRAMME DISCUSSED. (British Official Wireless.) Received May 27. 10.30 a.m. RUGBY. May 26. The Prime Minister (Mr Chamberlain), the Foreign Secretary (Lord Halifax) .and the Minister for the Coordination of Defence (Sir Thomas Inskip) to-day met the General Council of Trade Union Congress in continuation of their meeting on March 23, when the question of the acceleration of the rearmament programme was under discussion.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 151, 27 May 1938, Page 8
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140EMERGENCY MEASURE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 151, 27 May 1938, Page 8
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