BRITAIN’S FOOD PROBLEM.
LORD RHONDDA'S ASSURANCE. NO DANGER OF FARING. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. London, Jan. 24. Tin' Press Bureau states that a deputation of Mat dies ter engineers and munition workers waited on Lord Khoudda and asked for a dotinito assurance of there being a food shortage and if steps were being taken for national rationing.
Lord Rhondda said there was no famine end uoMikclihood of one, out there was a definite shortage of ..iiipnt, hotter, bucon and margarine. The local schemes,' ho arid. will ultimately be welded into a national 'scheme, and nearly 2000 foci',l control committees are now svorkiug. A rrangemonts were being made to create a food clearing house, aiming at each district having a fair share. Cabinet had antlioriscd a Bill dealing with profiteering which would' exset from e:ch offender (limbic the amount of the profit in addition to the penalty.
LLNSCRIPITON OF WEALTH. ■UK BCInAR LAW’S STATEMENT London, Jan. 24. Nr Bonar Law said the Government was not taking steps to propare a scheme for the conscription of wealth. COMMANDEERING FOOD. London, Jan. 24. Lord Rhondda will shortly issue au order empowering local Foou Committees to commandeer other foodstuffs in addition to margarine.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11445, 26 January 1918, Page 5
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200BRITAIN’S FOOD PROBLEM. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11445, 26 January 1918, Page 5
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