BRITAIN'S FOOD SUPPLY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 7672, 19 January 1918, Page 4

BRITAIN'S FOOD SUPPLY.

LOhIJJON, Jau. 11. Lord kjhondda, Ji’ o od Controller, in opening tiie communa! kitchen, at Silver! on, expressed disappointment with the slowness of the developmentof the kitchen scheme, which was designed to economise food and provide meals for all classes. His wife, he said, had her • meals in the, .Westminster kitchen. Her only complaint was that she got too much for her mono}-. He was prepared to give the Tool Committees drastic powers. He was on the side of the poor consumer. Inevitably there would be shortages of certain foods', but there was nothing- alarming in the situation. It was only necessary to tighten their bolts. Our privations were nothing compared to those, of Germany.' Lord 'Rhondda added that/ he -was afraid Britain would have to adopt compulsory rationing. He had nearly completed a scheme which would bo put inko operation after Cabinet sanction had been obtained. The production of British margarine had enormously increased, and he hoped for a big supply of butter and margarine in six months’ Curie. lie hoped further io reduce the price of tea.

Lord ilihondd;i, appealed for paliV'iice regarding the. meat supply, of which I here would be a great shortage during the next fortnight, but thereafter the situation would innprove. The increased cost of essential foodstuffs was under (50 per cent , and this had decreased JO, per cent, in the past six months. Air Will Thorn, Labour tf.l'. for West I lain, who; presided, said that, many, including- the poor, boasted of the supplies of tea and margarine which, (hoy had purchased. '■'.[ am umawd," h 0 declared, "to sea. 'Marie /'orelli pinchod after the attitude she has taken up during the 'war.'"'| Private A. B. Bird, who was wounded or; Deeemhcr I2(h, has been transferred („ n ase u os pi ta i hl 1' ranee.' The Telegraph Department was greatly surprised recently to find that i lis cable newly laid across Cook Strait had developed a fault. On inspection, a shark's tooth was discovered embedded i n the insulation, which had caused the leak. At the meeting of the flenaldino ■Hoa<l Hoard on Tuesday, tin; Chair"mn .minted that this year's w o ol clip had been taken into Timaru by m lorry. ■•%, lon . v h;id ~,r t h / s place, between Crer a !dine and Voodhn,y- ai li.Kl a.m., and had complied two (,-ips to Timuru and back i, v |o..j|) p . [u . Two u . ijw ■„, SIA »<mrs. This must have been v<Tv hard on the roads. They were no doubt, up against a big propossi''■'"i with tile, motor lorry trallie.