BRITAIN

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 16040, 26 January 1918, Page 7

BRITAIN

MEAT TO BE RATIONED. FOOD PRODUCTION THE MOST SERIOUS PROBLEM. (Received Jan. 26, 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 25. Ixird Rhondda, Speaking at the Mansion House, announced that moat also would be rationed from February 25. Compulsory rationing was inevitable and urgent. The whole country wouid shortly be governed by rationing schemes, which would be developed into a national system. Ho proposed to fix a fair share of meat, margarine, and tea for each district and to see that they were supplied according to the necessities. He proposed to start with a level ration of meat for adults and half that ration for children under six. There was no ground for suspicion that well-to-do people were getting more than workers. In the House of Commons Sir Auckland Geddes, winding up the debate, said tho Government intended to make the utmost possible use of the homo forces for agripultural and similar purposes. The most anxious problem of the moment was not supplying men for the army but the production of food. A deputation of London members of the Housoi of Commons interviewed the Shipping Controller to-day with reference to tho report that the Port of London was to be closed to -merchant shining, and pointed out that this would be the cause of a vast dislocation of labour and trade.