BRITISH FOOD STOCKS.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15001, 24 February 1919, Page 5

BRITISH FOOD STOCKS.

RELEASE FROM CONTROL

[Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

(Received Feb. 23, 5.5 p.m.) London, Feb. 20

In response to the insistent public demand, the Government have appointed a committee to consider the prices at which the Treasury's vast stocks of food can be sold. The Chancellor is permitting sales below the purchase prices. The Food Controller is reducing the price of meat twopence a pound all round from March Ist.

. The Controller states that he is prepared to remove from control any particular article of food when supplies thereof are abundant, and will trust to competition to reduce the cost of distribution to the lowest possible point. The Press Bureau states that the Cabinet has decided that the quantity of spirits to be released shall be increased 50 per cent.