FOOD CONTROL

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 117, 18 April 1939, Page 7

FOOD CONTROL

TO MEET EMERGENCY. PLANS AT HOME. REGULATION OF PRICES. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received April IS, 11 a.m. LONDON, April 17. The food defence plans have been completed and will be operable witlnn ten days. Tlie Eood Ministry, after the outbreak of war, will exclusively control all food imported besides being the sole purchaser of all home-pro-duced food, thus preventing profiteering. All prices will he strictly regulated. The Smithfield and Billingsgate markets, in order to defeat bombings, will he 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 lor three months under the temporary food plan. Nineteen million householders' forms and sixty million 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 ration cards will then he eighty millions.