FOOD IN WARTIME

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20421, 11 February 1938, Page 9

FOOD IN WARTIME

PROVISION FOR STORAGE DISCUSSED IN PARLIAMENT A MINISTERIAL STATEMENT (Official Wireless) RUGBY, February 9 A motion tabled in the House of Commons by a private Member urging the Government to undertake the building of new or the extension of existing food storage plants immune from air attack, was debated In the House of Commons. Sir Thomas Inskip Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence , replying for th«* Government said that plans for the emergency distribution of food have been practically completed. The needs of the defence services came first, home production second, and food storage third. The home production of wheat, sugar and other food supplies had increased and he assured the House that the Government recognised food storage as an important part of any plan for the maintenance of national food supply. The Minister declined to go into details, tlie disclosure of which might affect prices, but he opposed the idea of the Government being urged to build storage plants when the necessities of rearmament demanded the fullest use of the national building resources. The motion was defeated by 193 to 130 votes.