IN BRITAIN.
FOOD COMMITTEE'S REPORT.
PRICES UP 66 PER CENT
CAKE FOR MOTHERS AND INFANTS.
LONDON, September 30
The newspapers are giving proimncnoo to tho food Committee's report, and urge that immediate Government action should'be taken.
Tho report shows that prices h.ivc increased 65 per cent, since the outbreak of war, and urges that employers and public bodios should substantially increas'o tho wages of those in /tho lower paid grades of workers. v Tho report also recommends local authorities to establish maternity centres, baby clinics, and child nurseries, and to supply dinners to expectant and nursing mothers and to provide milk for children under the age of five. The majority of the members of tho Committo favour the State control of supplies and prices' of home-grown primary foodstuffs.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3569, 2 October 1916, Page 6
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128IN BRITAIN. FOOD COMMITTEE'S REPORT. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3569, 2 October 1916, Page 6
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