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Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14621, 28 January 1918, Page 2

Letters received by a lady wh«. resides in Ohristchurch, from friends izi fireat Britain, throw interesting sidelights on the position in that country at present. Writing from London, one lady says:—"The. food question in this country is becoming very, keen, especially as we .■are pooling our supplies with tlioso of our Allies.' Milk, butter, tea, sugar, bacon and several other commodities are very limited, and tie prices are double, and in some cases treble. Controllers' are appointed for nearly everything;. £5000 per, annum, xilus their staffs, and a spacious hotel commandeered for their use. Then tho authorities shout and advertise to poor people with about £1 a week and » large family to economise and save bread. The wastage all around is appalJing. This is a war of profiteering all round; everyone more or less is making something out of it, and the end is" not nearly" in sight yet."—Another friend writes from Wales: — "Everything is getting very scarce. We cannot get any "butter, and very little margarine, aiid no bacon, and «-v.er> little tea. .It is getting very, very serious." ,