Britain’s Food Problem.

Taihape Daily Times, 20 February 1918, Page 5

Britain’s Food Problem.

HUNGRY MILLIONS. SEARCH FOR FOOD. BRITISH QUEUES LENGTHEN. LONDON, January 17. The food queues were longer and more numerous than ever in London on Saturday, rich and poor joining in the hunt for Sunday’s meat and butter. Some queues contained as many as 300 women and children. Most of the shops kept their shutters down, permitting a few people to enter at a time, and all were soon sold out. Thousands of housewives were disappointed, but there was little complaint. Rabbits reached 5s apiece. Old hens sold at 1/9 pere lb. “LINE UP FOR BONES.” The residents of the country districts are getting plenty of food, but many of the provincial cities are bare; The police in many places in order to quell raids took over shops and stalls and enforced an equitable distribution of the goods. In London a butchear showed a sign —“No meat, but you can line up for bones.” The queue remained and purchased the bones.

In several provincial cities a system of rationing has been instituted. The National Commissioners conferred with Lord Rhondda, Food Controller, on Saturday concerning the details of the national rationing scheme

PROFIT IN MEAT.

Received 10.50. LONDON, Feb 19. Nelson Bros’ profit on the year’s working is £46,503. A dividend of 9 per cent, will be paid and £6507 carried forward.