FOOD SITUATION IN BRITAIN.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14620, 26 January 1918, Page 5

FOOD SITUATION IN BRITAIN.

MANCHESTER WORKERS AND

LORD RHONDDA

NATIONAL RATIONING URGED:

NO FEAR OF FAMINE.

.'Australian and N.Z. Cable Association

and Reuter.)

(Received Jan. 26, 1.30 a.m.)

London, Jan. 24

The Press Bureai; states that a deputation of Manchester engineers and munition workers waited on Lord Rhondda and asked for a definite assurance that if there was a food shortage . steps were being taken for national rationing.

Lord Rhondda said there was no famine and no likelihood of one, but the meat, butter, bacon and margarine local schemes would ultimately be welded into a national scheme. Nearly 2000 food control committees were now working. Arrangements: were being made to create a food clearing house, aiming at giving each district a fs.ir stare. The Cabinet had authorised a Bill dealing with profiteering and ryaeting from the offender douolo >he amount of his profit in addition to the penalty. ,