BRITAIN'S FOOD PROSPECTS.

Colonist, Volume LXII, Issue 15318, 5 March 1920, Page 2

BRITAIN'S FOOD PROSPECTS.

1920 A LEAN YEAR

Next year's food prospects were reviewed by Mr. McCurdy, Parliamentary Secretary, of Food, at a conference of Labour representatives of

Food Com'mittes in London, when he was considerably heckled."

Tbero will bo a .serious shortage of most essential foodstuffs, lie declared. Exports state that 1920 will be the. most critical year since the war as regards .supplies and prices of butter and cheese, and there is no prospect _of world K-npuliys uf sugar balancing tho demo. uds.

■ Despite the present glut in Britain tlio.re will be a world .shortage oi: meat-

next ve;vr

Coming to the milk qr.osticn, timid cmisiderabl-o interruption, j'Lr jMoGuvdy said if infants got" all 'tho milk they required there would ho none for the adults.

A Delegate: Put tho profiteers in gaol. (Hoar, hear.) •A Woman Delegate: Why not stop tlu> ranking cf fancy pastries and chocolates;," and lei; tho children have morn sugar. (Hear, hear.) Mr. 'McCurdy was bombarded with further 'questions, several delegates attempting to speak at the same time.