THE FOOD PROBLEM

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2920, 4 November 1916, Page 10

THE FOOD PROBLEM

BRITISH GOVERNMENT BILL IN " VIEW SYSTEM OF DISTRIBUTION Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. London, November 2. '■•The Government is drafting a Food Prices .Bill. It will not seek to fix prices arbitrarily, but by purchaso of commodities endeavour to control tho distribution and check preventable rises m prices. Apart from wheat tho Government's chief problems are milk and potatoes. , Tho Board of Trade-is assured of a good rico supply, and suggests that it should largely replace potatoes.' The "Daily Mail" states, that the Wheat Commission has made large purchases in the United States and elsewhere, and intends to issue lists of fair prices for Hour and bread, which it will he in a- position to enforco owing to having control of the sale of all wheat. THE PROBLEM IN RUSSIA ("Tho Times.'*) Petrograd, November 2. The food crisis is daily assuming nioro, formidable proportions. The situation of tho working classes is intolerable. The Budget Committee has resolved to fix the prices of grain, footwear, textiles, la-rosene, soap, and other commodities. 1 GEMANnWIREMITY Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. Zurich, November 2. Persons in close touch with Germany , assert that Gormany's food shortago is becoming aggravated, and many commodities are dear. Sugar has disappeared and been replaced by saccharine. The now potato crop is of poor quality. FOR WOUNDED OVERSEAS SOLDIERS Australian-New Zealand Oablo Association, London, November 2. j /At the suggestion of tho Colonial Institute, the City Livory Companies are arranging winter entertainments for wounded overseas soldiers.