FOOD STORAGE PLANTS
TIMES OF EMERGENCY DISTRIBUTION PLAN PRACTICALLY COMPLETE [British Official Wireless) (Received 10th February, 11.35 a.m.) RUGBY, 9th February. A private member’s motion urging the Government to undertake the building of new, or extension of existing food storage plants immune from air attack, was debated in the House of Commons. Sir Thomas Inskip, -Minister for Coordination of Defence, replying for the Government, said plans for the emergency distribution of food had been practically completed. The needs of the defence services came first, home production second and food storage third. Home production of wheat, sugar and other food supplies had increased. He assured the House that the Government recognised food storage as an important part of the plan for the maintenance of a national food supply. He declined to go into details, disclosure of which might affect prices, but opposed the idea of the Government being urged to build storage plants when the necessities of rearmament demanded the fullest use of national building resources
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 10 February 1938, Page 7
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