FOOD FOR BRITAIN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26437, 16 April 1947, Page 5

FOOD FOR BRITAIN

EYES TURNING TO RUSSIA RELIEF OF DOLLAR STRAIN Rec. 8 p.m. LONDON, Apl. 15. Sir Henry Turner, controller of the Food Ministry’s Meat and Livestock Division, said he expected that supplies in 1947 would be down dramatically on the 1946 supplies. “The effect of the shortage of homekilled supplies would be almost the same as if Britain did not get a single ounce from the Argentine,” he said. The Ministry had “ gone to the ends of the earth ” to get all the meat it could. The Geneva correspondent of the Associated Press quotes official British sources as saying that Mr Harold Wilon, overseas trade secretary, who is to lead a trade mission to Moscow, would try to obtain wheat supplies from Russia so as to ease, or possibly end bread rationing in Britain. Mr Wilson will consult the British Cabinet before flying to Moscow on Friday. British sources said that wheat, timber and food supplies, including canned goods, would head the list of commodities Britain would present to Russia “ We are aware that Russia can become one of the most important world markets for British consumer goods, and may provide a big part of the answer to our dollar problem when she can spare more food. We do not expect to achieve miracles during the forthcoming exchanges, but we hope to establish Anglo-Russian trade more , firmly than it has been since 1917," said officials. ' J