FOOD SCARCE AFTER THE WAR.
.EUROPE'S GREAT PROBLEM'. I LONDON, March 24. • ! > -Sir -William Goode, liaison officer --to the; Ministry of Stood -Control,, connecting 'witli the American food control, speaking in London,*; said that 200,000,---000' European people would engage in a ; treniendons • food sotarrible immediately <&fter the war. 'The enemy -will claim j economic equality if peace is incon- : elusive, arid the Allies will probably . be* 1 obliged to share their supplies pro rata. Britain's share will fall- below the present rations. America and Canada now , supply- 64 per cent, of our essential foodstuffs. .We could not expect the Americans to continue their -present, voluntary sacrifices. Meanwhile y the tonnage scarcity will severely limit supplies from .Australia and New Zealand.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14572, 6 April 1918, Page 8
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