ALLIED FOOD SITUATION

Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13816, 22 July 1918, Page 4

ALLIED FOOD SITUATION

A CHEERFUL PICTURE. BETTER Til AX IX 1916 OR 1917. OVERCOMING THE LABOUR PROBLEM. (Australian and X.Z. Cable Assn.) Received Julv 21, 5.5 p.m. LONDON', July 20. Mr R. H. I'rothero, President of the Board of Agriculture, in the House of Commons drew a cheerful picture of the food situation. Britain, he said, had now the highest acreage in corn crops ever recorded. France, Italy and Greece had copied our agricultural methods and given an average harvest, the Allies' food position would be vastly better than in 191(5 or 1917. Three thousand Government tractors ai'e working. Cattle have decreased, but sheep are improving and the decline in pigs has been arrested. Labour has been the greatest difficulty, but fi1,09(l soldiers, 10,200 German prisoners and interned aliens, and .'IOO,OOO women are employed on the land. IMPROVEMENT IN BREAD AND MEAT.

ENGLAND ABSOLUTELY' SAFE. (Australian and N.Z. Cattle Assn.J Received .Itilv 21, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, July 20. Mr J. If. Clviies, Minister of Food Control, speaking at Manchester, announced that the quality of the bread would shortly lie improved by larger issues of flour and wheat. The reserves in Britain now made the country absolutely safe, riven if the war were to last a considerable tune. The quality of the meat would also be improved. At present 70 per cent of the meat was imported, but !i t > hoped that shortly oniy 20 per cent would be imported, the rest being home-grown. Cattle, which had been deliberately kept back for fattening would be released.