FOOD FOR BRITAIN
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Option Over Canadian Wheat Crop WAR-TIME SUPPLIES
(By Telegraph—
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(Reeeived 30,. 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 28. The Daily Herald declares that an option over the entire Canadian wheat crop to ensure a part of Britain 's food supply in the time of emergency has been engineered by the Board of Trade and Sir Thomas Inskip, Minister of Defence, after secret negotiations between Whitehall experts and the Canadian Wheat Board for some months. If the option is taken up, it will cost Britain about £100.000,000 in addition to £5,000,000, the price of the option. This is only part of a great scheme for importing and storing emergency supplies. Old disused ports on the south-west coast are to become receiving centres iustead of vulnerable targets such as the Port of London, Hull and Newcastle. New ports being surveyed are Poole, Falmouth, Milford Tlaven, Mary- • port, Dee Estuary, Holyhead and Stranraer. To convert Poole into a first-class port will cost £1,000.000.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 82, 30 December 1937, Page 8
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