FOOD PROBLEM
BREAD SUBSIDY. | PARIS, Dec. 1!). The Government has decided to withdraw the bread subsidy, which is costing £1(10,000,000. It would havo boon even higher but for the favourable contracts with Australia and A.mcrica, which arc now ended. American wheat costing the Government £5 a quarter had boon sold to French bakers at £2. The price of bread will now bo about doubled. The old scheme resulted in a terriblo was to of bread, which was sometimes iheapcr than potatoes. Agriculturists used bread to feed pigs, chickens, and rabbits. ( A quarter of grain is equal to .light bushels.]
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Wairarapa Age, 22 December 1919, Page 3
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99FOOD PROBLEM Wairarapa Age, 22 December 1919, Page 3
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