BRITAIN.
SUGAR ALLOWANCE. REDUCTION ANTICIPATED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. LONDON, March 22. Lord Devonport states that it may sown be necessary to reduce the sugar allowance from three-quarters to half a pound per head weekly. Ho will make it penal for a retailer to self or a consumer to possess more than a. fortnight's allowance. The. police will be given power to search houses.
NEW INDUSTRIAL METHODS. DEMOBILISATION PLANS. Mr John Hodge, Minister of' Labour, speaking at the Associated Chambers of Commerce, said: "We must have scientific organisation of industry alfteir the war and scrap obsolevi metlhods. Employers and • workers have been equal sinners. We miist start afresh with greater co-operation." The Minister is forming a great central committee to organise demobilisation. 'Thei'o will he equal representation of capital and Inhour. A similar committee will be • formed m every village of 200 inhabitants.;*:
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Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16227, 24 March 1917, Page 5
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