WORLD'S FOOD SHORTAGE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 282, 17 August 1918, Page 7

WORLD'S FOOD SHORTAGE

ALLIED CONTROLLERS' SCHEME OF i APPORTIONMENT. ! London, August 15. Mr. J. E.. Clynos (Food Controller), in. a speech in London,,said that the world's ; food shortage was bound to increase, and ■ the avoidance of waste had become mofe ; important. Every 10,000 tons of food ' saved enabled 'America to send 2000 more i soldiers. The Allied Food Controllers had just completed a scheme providing . ' for the fair apportionment of food among •! the armies and populations of the vari- i oils countries. If this soheme was car« | ried out in the spirit which the repre- ; eentatives displayed the difficultes, euch : as had been experienced, would never it* ' turn.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Aeen. i . DISTRIBUTION OF MEAT IN - ' BRITAIN... . London, August 15. Major Sr Thomas Robinson (Agent- . General for Queensland) introduced to Mv. J. R. Clynes (Food Minister) a deputation from the Australian and New. Zealand Meat Importers'. Association, who. made suggestions regarding the organiea- ' tion nnd distribution of supplies in the British markats. . ~-. .. ; Mr. Clynes promised to give his assistance, in carrying out the aims of the deputation.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Asen. '; PRICES FOB FOODSTUFFS IN FRANCE. . : Paris, August 15. i Official returns show that the prices of ) ordinary foodstuffs and household ar- ' tides in the larger towns have risen by. ; 132- per cent, since 1911.—Reuter.