THE REAL TROUBLE
BRITISH AGRICULTURE
NO ORGANISATION
BETTER MARKETING BILL
United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received 10th February, 1 p.m.) LONDON, 9th February. In the House of Commons, . Dr. Addison, Minister of Agriculture, moving the second reading of the Agricultural Marketing Bill, authorising Boards to organise and regulate tho marketing of home-grown produce, pointed out that the British market was most carefully catered for by exporters. Denmark sent her best bacon, New Zealand her best butter, and all' the Dominions their best fruit. Tha collection, standardisation, and distri-, bution of imported food supplies in. Britain were carried out by most capable and highly organised associations, while home products; were the subject of utter: disorganisation. Unnecessary journeys and factory. costs added *35s • to! every home-grown bacon pig and 543 . to every bullock. He believed that under organised standardisation Britaiu could produce and. distribute an additional hundred millions worth of foodstuffs. "We must take'our eyes off the shifting mirage of food .taxes," he said, "and devote ourselves, to the constructive, urgent, vital task of enabling home agriculture to make tha fullest use of: its splendid horn« market.'' ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 34, 10 February 1931, Page 9
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186THE REAL TROUBLE Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 34, 10 February 1931, Page 9
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