CANADA'S NEED EXPLAINED

Chronicle (Levin), 10 January 1947, Page 7

CANADA'S NEED EXPLAINED

WELLINGTON, Jan. 9. j The Ofticc oi' ihe Uigh Conlmissioner I for Canada in a statenient issued today j set out that Canada faces a deliciency of 15,000,000lbs. of Imtter below wliat { is required to mahitahi the. Cauadianj butter ration of tio/., per week. Thei butter ration lluctuated duriug the war. | At its highest point it was 8oz. pei"! week, reduced to 7o/.. tlurmg 1945, and . at the eud of that year was, again i'cduced to Goz. In JManrh and May, 194b, the ration went ilown to 4oz. it was then raiseil to 5 1-ooz. and .since June has been boz. Evaporated milk is ratioiied iu all areas wliere i'resli milk is available and j couxions are supplied only for liifauts; and on niedical eertiiicates. Dried milkl and sweeteneil condensed is not gener-| ally available in Cumula. The ration- 1 ing of butter aiul evapora-thd milk has been necessary 011 a'ccount oftthe great-, ly increased exx>orts of ' tt'heese and ; evaporated, condensed and ..dried milk to the United lvingdont and .otlier parts of the Commonwealtli and Enipire. Althougli shortening apd eookmg fats have not been rationqd to tiie housewife they are controlled under an allocation systeiu by the lnanufacturers and distributors. Tli.e total aniount of j these fats distributej was previousiy. ^liiuibeji^t Jip l\o>r,i(ctxyL;i o^.^Uic ;.194l| "aniount used. but tliis w^s>;re,duced to . 7b per cent. of the 1941 amounts ini 194b. Lard xiroduction has. been reduced in Canada in part because of the' ^ieavy shipments of bacon to the United 1 Kingdom. The anioimt available for Canadian coiisumption in 194b was onlyi 52 x^cr cent. of ihe aniount 111 1941. | Taking butter into consideration the Canadian per capifa consdniption of edible fats is tlier lowest .in Canadian, history and with the boz. ■TjutTer ration' is exactly 0x1 a par with tlial of the j United Kingdom. ■*>