FOOD SUPPLY SATISFACTORY.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17065, 18 August 1917, Page 5

FOOD SUPPLY SATISFACTORY.

(Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn. & Reuter.)

Received August 17, 5.5 p.m.

LONDON, August 16

In the House of Commons, Mr. Lloyd George made an important speech regarding several aspects of the war. He declared that the food position had been considerably improved. In August last there was a stock of 6V 2 million quarters of wheat. The country now had 8y 2 million quarters. Oats and barley stocks were also higher. There had been considerable saving in bread consifltaptior., while the acreage under cultivwfion had mci eased by a million. If the harvest was good, as it promised, then the condition of the country's food supplies, taking everything into account, would be very satisfactory. He still urged the need for economy, because the more we economised the less we would need from Canada and the United States, from which France and Italy also drew their supplies. Mr. Lloyd George said the reserves/ of sugar had been increased.