BRITAIN'S FOOD

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 101, 23 January 1919, Page 5

BRITAIN'S FOOD

LARGE QUANTITY OF MEAT AVAILABLE

RATIONING TO BE DISCONTINUED

By Telegttlph-Pross Association-Copyright

(Rec. January 23, 0.6 a.m.)

London, January 20.- - Mγ. Brickwell, Director.of the Cold Storage .Department of .the Ministry of Food, states that a very large quantity— almost a glut—of Australian meat will be available within a few months. The weekly supply will continue sufficiently large to meet all needs. It will not be necessary to continue rationing/ During the war, the cold' storage . had increased to 190,000 tons. By October there will .be a cubic foot of cold storage for every man, woman, and child in the United Kingdom. The structures had cost thus far over £3,000,000. If the war had continued they would have provided still more. This was now unnecessary. Most of the- cold stores were at seaports. London had sixteen million cubic feet out of a. total of 39,000,000: Liverpool, Manchester, and Bristol had the'ne'xt largest space. Also, smaller stores were dotted in the Midlands, but few in the North of England laud Scotland, because the consumers there objected to frozen meat. The Cold Storage Department intended to relay control as quickly as possible, and leave the development to private enterprise.—Aiis.-N.Z. XJable Assn.