IN BRITAIN. HIGH FOOD PRICES.
STATEMENT.BY MR. IiONCWAN
(Received September 22, ■ 5.45- a.m.)
LONDON, September 21
Mr W. Runciman (President, of tho Board of Trade), replying to tbo Poplar Council's resolution protesting against high food prices, claimed that the Government had taken practical measures to deal with the problem. He instanced its control of frozen meat, which had prevented prices, souring to great heights. But the Government co/uld not be blind to the fact that ill-conceirod and artificiallyfixed prices might easily create an actual shortage. Broadly speaking, the Government could not control the world's prices. No other country had
gone so far as Britain to interfere with the fowl supplies, except Germany. In Germany, prices had risen over 117 per cent., in Austria 1-19 per cent., and in Britain 65 por cent.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3561, 22 September 1916, Page 5
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132IN BRITAIN. HIGH FOOD PRICES. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3561, 22 September 1916, Page 5
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