BRITAIN'S FOOD

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13965, 15 August 1919, Page 1

BRITAIN'S FOOD

UNPROMISING WINTER OUTLOOK There is every possibility of tihe fiiisib winter of peiace seeing a return to the oomditioiijs of food gihoa-tag© amd high prices im Britaiini which brought th© Kiimistry o>i Food into beting "ini bhe middle of the war. ' The GovernarKeniti are aiware that the price of fats has inco'eased already awing ito tihe reoenjti comipebitdon of aieuita-ai cooinitries, and thai stiilT furtlher inicaeiafiee, of food price® generally, may be espeoted when the raisimg' of (tihe blookiade permits the Cea:ral Euroipieani ooumtir'ies to comj>ett) to. the, world's marketa Thie Board of. Tradei announce?, that it has been decided to aiutihcrise the, :es(umiption by .firms in the United Kingdom of exipwitls of foodst'ixffe to jermaaiy, throuigib, neutral and: Allied jounitries, wiithin the monthly raition >f foodstuffs allowed tQ Gwrnamy unier the Brussels agreement. A getaaral license uaider the Trading witih the Enemy legiislaitiioini ha s fc;een; i&sued to give effeci to this decision. "Foodstuffis" meaiiis food, beverages, spices, edible oils, or other .ar*' tdoles initendted solely for tihei maaiufacitiure of hunxam. food. All an^amgemieinitis for fLnamce have to be made by aind ait the risk of the private tradens and tih^ anutoai on-. Allied firm' or Government ooinceraed. BACON OUTLOOK. But nothdng is bedngi done to porepare adequately for this compet'itioin'. The faciti lhaiti, in the case of 'bacion, the Food Controller ifei inl. oooiMnunioataon witih Mr Hoover a* to. whetiher some arramgeniieiii. t oairji be madp with the U.S. to give English buyers a preferenci© over other European buyera on> itihe lifting of thjg blocikade, is not encouraging. In free" mai-keits .tihe Americani pa-'oduoers, as members of the Consumea-si'' Council, have pointed cu^ to The Daily Madl, will naturally sell to the highest bidders. Th,ait is why the Council are so strongly resisting, the scrapiping: of the nua'chinery of cbnitrol- - PRICE OF MEAT. The Consumersi' Cc-iaiicdl haive pointed ou t tihe dangeir 1 ariiiintr from trusts apd combines, nob only ir, ithie US , but also in England. It is suspeoted tihiarf; tihe niise ini price of tea. at <thn recieinn; aucitdomi sales was due to a ring, and tihei aotdon of tihe Minoßjtry otf Food in/ amnoiunctincj-that 55,000,'----0001b of tea will be available to the trade neocb month., will, it is b&lieved, go far ■to put am eaid tc> aaiy such operations. ■ Meat experts state tfl^a^ the ; po9si-" biilitjy oi i>, deiclame 1 ir- p^icetiof imported meat depeinds more thaai .anything on- the tonnage available to liift the. cheaper stocks dm Argfentiiiniai, Austirialia, and New Zealand. They declare that if thfiisi cihoaiper meat can be t brought to" ;tSbe oaunibiy. iiu sufficient S quantdity w© fiihall not bei so complejfely im the bjaodis of the Ameniciaia ! "Bi^ Five." It ds held that, the disbamding of the, Ministry of Shipping took place too soon,.