"NO GLUT!"

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10509, 10 February 1920, Page 6

"NO GLUT!"

IDEA POOH-POOHED BY MR McCURDY. The Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. W. F. Massey) furnished a; "Times" representative yesterday with a report, from the London "Observer,"- of December 21st, 1919, of an interview with Mr McCurdy, Parliamentary Secretary to the British Ministry for Food, from which we take the following extract:— "Meat is now reaching this country from New Zealand which was held up during the war by transport difficulties. The average newspaper reader discovers the existence and the coming of this meat, /<nd immediately begins to talk about a glut. That.is the popular word of the moment. There is a 'glut' of everything—of meat, sugar, bacon—of anything ithe public most wants. But what you cannot do is to persuade thoso same optimists that 120,000 tons of moat from New Zealand do not really balance a shortago of 360,000 tons in the Home supplies, to say nothing of a shortage in Central Europe, which amounts to three million itons. If in the course of next year wo are going to eat as much meat as we did before tho war, there will really bo no meat in the world to relieve the needs of Europe, and I &m afraid our own people do not yet realise how bitter these needs will be. If the glut of menit that we hear so much aibout is (to tecome a reality in this country, it can only be so on the understanding that we caro nothing if other people are ito hare no meat at all. I Tho detailed report of nn interesting interview with the Prime Minister on the subject of the ment commandeer and the "chit" afc Home will be found on the following page]