GERMAN FOOD SCARCE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19825, 30 December 1938, Page 8

GERMAN FOOD SCARCE

i “FORAGING” FOR XMAS HIGH PRUNES HIT POOR BERLIN, Dec. 16. While Herr Hitler was addressing roadworkers at a ceremony held in celebration of the opening of 3000 kilometres of motor roads, he declared that Germany, proportionately, was producing more agricultural products than other countries, but he admitted that there was a limit to production. There is evidence that family budgeting for Christmas will be very difficult because of the scarcity of butter, eggs, veal, and pork. Housewives’ shopping consists of foraging, in which a pound or two of whatever is available, is hastily snapped up. Butchers are unable to accept advance orders because they do not know what supplies will be available. Butter is adulterated, pale, and unappetising. A ration averages six ounces to each person a week. Eggs, even in fashionable restaurants, are not fresh. Bread, because of FieldMarshal Goering’s promise that less maize flour would be used in it, has become whiter, but its adulteration with potato flour 'has increased, resulting in a lack of improvement in consistency or flavour, while it is 2Jd a lb dearer than in London,