MEAT FOR MANY WEEKS
■\- AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT, .- London, August 11; .Ail official statement on the nation's meat.supply is issued by the Board of. Agribulturo and Fisheries, whoso: officers liaVe made special inquiries into the' quantity new in cold storage- in the principal- centres in England and Wales. As regards chilled and frozen meat,tho existing stocks are. sufficient to meet the ordinary needs at the noi-mal rate of consumption for about sis weeks, while there . are three - to four weeks supply on passage and due to arrive shortly. As ■ regards home supplies, which represent 60 per cent, of' tho total con-. -sumption) the boaa'd have ascertained from the' recently collected.agricultural returns that there is a substantia] increase in.the numbers of live stook as compared with last year. This statement is supplemented by an announcement which Mr. Runciman makes in a written reply,to a question. The; President of the Board I ,of Trade says that as there is no reason to.anticipate' any serious, diminution in the. supply of meat from abroad,- ho does not 'share in the fear that there is .bo a shrinkago .in, the normal | homo BUpply, of meatduring next spring and. early summer. —"Daily News.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2266, 28 September 1914, Page 7
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196MEAT FOR MANY WEEKS Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2266, 28 September 1914, Page 7
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