BRITAIN'S FOOD PROBLEM.
No Danger of Famine. [ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT-] [per press association.} lteceived this day at 10.5 a.m. London, December 19. Lord lihondda in a speech, at Islington said every food queue was a cenfre of possible mischief and must and will be stoped. The Ministry would support local -food committees initiating schemes for more equitable distribution and the Food Controller will consider a scheme of compelling customers to register at one shop for butter and margarine. Compulsory rationing will probably be necessary, but there is' no fear of starvation. The prices of potatoes, meat, bread, margarine and cheese would be reduced. In the last half year cost ol living had fallen ten per cent. The Ministry's measures precluded the possibility of profiteering « whereto the increased prices were only slightly due. The committees could prosecute and driye out the profiteers from business.' He believed the country was willing to have the most drastic regulations so long as the sacrifices were equal. ■
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 20 December 1917, Page 2
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