Prospects For Food In Britain
Reference to the monotony of the diet in England was made by Mr W. Sullivan, M.P., in an interview with the Beacon recently. He referred to the scarcity of foods that are common in this country but which the English .people very rarely see. Whether there would be any improvement he did not say. An indication of the prospects for the six main food items for 1949 were drawn up and released recently by Dr Edith Summerskill, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food, like this: MEAT: Uncertain. Supplies considerably less in 1948 than in 1947. No real improvement in Australian supplies until 1952. BUTTER: Ration will be maintained at 3oz a week.
EGGS: May, go up to 100 per head (compared with 78 this year). BACON: Nothing like a full supply of bacon during the next two or three years. TEA: No guarantee that the ration will increase from 2 to 2|oz a week in the immediate future.
FEEDING STUFFS: Increased during the 1948-49 period. We are negotiating with Hungary, Yugoslavia and Russia.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 61, 7 March 1949, Page 5
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