BRITAIN'S MEAT SUPPLIES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12064, 20 July 1917, Page 5

BRITAIN'S MEAT SUPPLIES.

STATEMENT BY VISCOUNT HAFiCOi: RT. THTt EATENET> SHORTAGE. Australian and X.Z. Cnhle Association. (ißcccivod July '2O. S.-l~> n.w.) LONDON.. .July in. In the Mnnso of Lords, Viscount Harcotirl said that \vhi!<• acting as President. of the Board of Tr;ido he :irquired information \\ hich caused liiin tho greatest anx.'otv regarding tlie meat. supply alter the war. Tliere would be a world scarcity of meat, almost a wot Id famine. Germany, B"lgium and Holland were faced with a nost-war deficit, of eight million head of cattle, and Denmark, Ausrria, Serbia and Rumania with, another eight million. Europe, therefore, must seek to import sixteen to twenty milium head. Britain produces only HO per cent of the. meat consumed. He (\iseount Haroourt) was no impressed with the seriousness of the position last year that he sought to arrange- a scheme for securing a supply of chilled meat ample for Britain tor several years nftor the war. Ho incptired what progress had since ben made with a view to securing supplies-

Lord Hylton replied that the Covcrnment was alive to the importance of the question, but. was unable to supply details of information in its possession.