SHELVES WILL BE EMPTY
Post-War Demand For Goods (Rec. 7 p.m.) RUGBY. May 7. A forecast of the vast demand for consumers goods after the war was made by the president of the Board of Trade (Mr Oliver Lyttelton) speaking to-day. , ~ Shelves all over the world, even m the United States, would be empty, he said, and he thought a selective export nolicy and control of imnorts would be necessary as part of the system to prevent an unregulated boom. For the first time in history Britain would be a debtor country. Mr Lyttelton said he did not think that the present war would end Euronean civilisation. The power of the modern world to recreate wealth must not be underrated, but proner methods of the direction, use and distribution of wealth must be learned.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21958, 9 May 1941, Page 5
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