BRITISH FOOD SHORTAGE.
PROSPECTS NOT HOPEFUL.
COAL OUTPUT A FACTOR. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Rec<L 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. July 26.
The,producers in Ilford are doing ! a brisk trade by selling in the street. '< They are seriously underselling the ; shopkeepers. . i Mr. G. H. Roberts, the Food Con-1 troller, speaking at Darfield, said that owing to adverse exchange rates with America the housewife was paying nearly threepence a pound extra for bacon. Unless the output of coal was greatly increased any lowering of prices was hopeless. He added, " We exchange coal for , food."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17223, 28 July 1919, Page 5
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