THE ROYAL EXAMPLE.

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13933, 16 July 1917, Page 1

THE ROYAL EXAMPLE.

KING MAKES AN APPEAL TO THE HIS PEOPLE.

ECONOMY AND FBUGALITY. ■ The King held a Privy Council at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday, May 2nd, when the principal business was the signing by his Majesty of the following Proclamation, enjoining economy in the use of bread, flour, and grain:— . •■■". BY THE KING. A Proclamation: George R.I. We, being persuaded tlmi the abstention from all unnecessary consumption of grain will furnish the surest and most' effectual means of defeating

the devices of our enemies, and .hereby of bringing the war to a speedy and successful termination; and out of our resolve to leave nothing undone which can contribute to these ends, or to the welfare of tho people in these times of grave Stress and anxiety, have thought fit by and with the advice of our Privy Council to,' issue this, our lloyal Proclamation, most earnestly exhorting and ehargiug all those of our loving subjects, the men and women of our realm, who means of procuring articles of food other than wheaten ' com, as they tend their own immediate interests, and feel for the wants of others, os-' pecially to practise the greatest economy and frugality in the use of every j species of groin, And we do for this purpose more particularly exhort and charge all heads of households to reduce the consumption of bread in their respective , families by at least onefourth of the quantities consumed in ordinary times, to abstain from the use of flour in pastry; and, moreover, carefully to restrict, or whereever possible to abandon, tho use thereof in all other articles than bread. And we do also in like manner exhort and charge all persons who keep horses to abandon the practice of feeding the same on oats or other grain, unless they shall' have received from our Food Controller a license to feed

horses 011 oats or other «rnin, to lie given only'in cases where it is necessary to do so with a view to maintain the breed of horses in the national interest.

And we do hereby further charge and enjoin all ministers of religion in their respective churches and chapels within our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to read, or cause to be read, this, our Proclamation, on the Lord's Day for four successive weeks after the issue thereof.

Given at our Court at Buckingham Palace this second day of May, in the year of our Lord. 1917, and in the seventh year of our reign. Gocl Save the King.

EOYAL HOUSEHOLD ON STRICT mra.

The Press Association is authorise" to state that his Majesty is not asking h'i subjects to do anything which he is not prepared to do himself. Very early in .February strict, rationing was introduced into the Royal Household, and has been steadily adhered to. Sir Derek Keppel, Master of the Household, stated emphatically:—"The King would never ask his people to make sacrifices in which lie is unprepared to share. ' lie will do consistently what he asks the general public to do, and what is more io the point, has already done and is still doing it. We are all on strict rations here, and have been since the beginning of February,"