MEAT FAMINE THREATENED.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14354, 20 July 1917, Page 3

MEAT FAMINE THREATENED.

THE WORLD'S DIMINISHING HERDS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received July 20, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, July 19. In the House of Lords Eord Harcourt said that while acting President of the Board of Trade he acquired information causing- the greatest anxiety regarding the niedt supply after the war. There would be a world scarcity of meat— almost a world, famine. Germany, Belgium and 1 Holland were faced with a post-war deficit o_ eight million bead of cattle ; J Denmark, Austria, , Serbia, and' Rumania another eight million. "jEurope, therefore, would seek tb import from 16 to 20 million head. Britain produceonly sixty per cent, of the meat consirjnpd: He, himself, was so impressed' w'ltKv the" seriousness ox the situationthat last. year he sought to arrange, a" sob erne for securing a supply of chilled/ meat ample' for Britain for several years aftei* tlie war. Lord Harcourt inquired' as to the progress made since. .; Lord' Hylton replied that the Govern--meiit was alive to the importance of th<r question, but were unable to supply dcV tailed information.