“WE MUST BE PREPARED"

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1707, 3 May 1917, Page 3

“WE MUST BE PREPARED"

“INCREASING DIFFICULTIES."

NEW ZEALAND AND THE WAR

“We have been discussing important questions of coal supply, wheat -apply, and various other important matters." said (he Acting-Crime Minister (Sir James Allen) lo a Cost reporter yesterday at the close of a two hours' session of Cabinet.

“The public inns! understand," lie eonl iniied, “that we are now ap - proaching a stage in the war when certain restrictions Avill have to he imposed, principally because of the dillieullies of Iransporl.

“No one can read the daily account of (lie desl met ion of shipping by submarines without realising that (he toll is very heavy, and that il will probably result in the Imperial Government having lo liml its supply of food and other materials from Ihe nearest ports from which they can he obtained. Indeed, avc knoAv Iha I Iwo ships were diverted to the American const because, as compared with New Zealand, (hey could run two trips instead of one. “So we must he prepared, and must look ahead for increasing' difficulties in regard to the shipment, of mir produce." Asked as (o a published statement that the Government proposed to prohibit (he inaiiufaelurc of pastry and the household delivery of bread, the Acting-l’riine Minister said il was “pure imagination." imi he would not say that il might not. come about.