BRITISH MEAT SUPPLIES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16590, 12 November 1919, Page 2

BRITISH MEAT SUPPLIES.

FOOD CONTROLLER. REPLIES TO IMPORTERS. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received Nov. 12, 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 9. Mr. M‘Curdy, replying to the meat importers (cabled on the sth), said at control was removed there would probably be a temporary fail in the price of imported moat owing to the heavy stocks arriving, while ample supplies ot home-grown wore available. It was not to interest of the British consumer to snatch at a purely temporary reduction, but to assure present and future supplies at the lowest reasonable level. Mr. M'Curdy admitted that the world’s prospective exportable, surplus was 1,250,000 tons, but if the restrictions on consumption were removed Britain would require 1,140,000 tons, not 750,000 tons, next year and the Continent a minimum of half a million tons. Therefore there would be no normal surplus. The removal of the meat control would involve a risk of higher prices in all the markets of the world. .—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BRIGHTER PROSPECTS. (Received Nov. 12, 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 9. The newspapers foreshadow a reduction of 2d per lb. in the controlled price of bacon, a reduction in the price of coal, an increase of the weekly butter ration to IJoz., and the release from bond of a greater supply of whisky.