PROPER DECISION

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20133, 30 December 1939, Page 6

PROPER DECISION

RATIONING OF FOOD REACTION IN BRITAIN EXPLOITING RESOURCES MEANS TO VICTORY (Eire. Tel. Copyright— United Press Assn.) (British Official Wireless.) P.ecd. 12.30 p.m. RUGBY. Dec. 29. The Food Ministry’s announcement of the definite date for the rationing of butter, bacon, arid sugar found the public fully prepared for .this measure and it is recognised that although these are the first rations, in Britain, they will not bo the if st. Tlie rationing of meat was foreshadowed in the announcement .and is expected to take effect in February. So far from being received with apprehension, practically all newsptpers regard the rationing '•ipcision as a proper one. the Daily Express alone persisting that the course is unnecessary. The Times says the announcement produces a sense of relief and declares that there is ho hardship in the sugar ration, which.. has been fixed at over a quarter higher than the present German ration, the less sq since in Germany jam is rationed as well as sugar Gcrntdii Campaign Failing

“The rationing is no indication of any,.success irr the enemy's campaign to starve us out" proceeds The Times. “Oil the contrary, this campaign on which he is reported to,have founded gieat hopes is clearly failing and will certainly fail.

“The rationing is not the consequence of an indiscriminate pursuit of economy, but of the desire to ensure the wisest possible outlay of all means tp victory.” . ...

The Daily Mail says that the rationing will inflict iio general hardship and the' News Chronicle says the country will accept it with a good grace.

The Daily Telegraph notes tha t-Ger-many, which by., the. great , development of her beet sugar output has become self-sufficient in that commodity, has ..fixed her weekly sugar ration, not at, 12 ounces which ..is the Britislj ratift'ff, but at eight and three-quarter ounces'per head and has also rationed preserves.

“In this country, .the sugar beet output last year fell to 289,000. tons,, b.Ut the Go/ernme u expects, this year’s output to be as high as 475,000 tons—• roughly .a fifth of .the. nation’s., total censpmpnon. '-he balance being rupniied in almost '"equal proportions from Empire and foreign ■ sources.”