THE FOOD PROBLEM
FLOUR FOR GREAT BRITAIN.
PURCHASE IN AUSTRALIA.
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. SYDNEY, January 19. The British Government has ordered 43,000 tons of flour from local firms for delivery by June at £10 18s 6d per ton. DISTRIBUTION INEQUALITIES. TROUBLE IN MANCHESTER AND LONDON. NECESSITY FOR COMPULSORY RATIONING. LONDON, January 18. Food distribution is giving rise to much publio discontent, particularly at Manchester, where 100,000 engineers decided to stop work on Saturday week and march to the Town Hall to protest against the unequal distribution. Minor disorders have occurred in London, where women, in margarine queues, were demanding supplies. Everything points to the necessity for compulsory rationing.
CONTROL OF MARGARINE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and
Reutcr. LONDON, January 18. (Received Jan. 20, at 5.5 p.m.) The Food Controller will commandeer all margarine from the 26th inst.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17217, 21 January 1918, Page 5
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140THE FOOD PROBLEM Otago Daily Times, Issue 17217, 21 January 1918, Page 5
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