SUPPLIES OF FOOD

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 10, 14 March 1938, Page 1

SUPPLIES OF FOOD

BRITISH A PRICE LITRE GOV KIT XM EX' T GRITICS t LONDON. Jan. 21. The . Onireh Times unexpectedly criticises tlie Government for- going on. “month after month .without any settled agricultural policy.'” It describes the drift from tlie land since 1914 as a menacing fact. “The British farmer,” it declares, “cannot face Avbrld competition Avitliout aid. The most effective aid Avould he Exchequer subsidies. Such assistance would ensure the farmer a fair return and would encourage more scientific culture, while releasing the industry from restrictions on produe-

tion, which farmers naturally resent, it would ensure the labourer a, decent wage and the consumer plentiful and cheap, food. Tiio Spectator states that it may ho that the demands for food storage made by some authorities go beyondi the demands of the* situation. “But,” it adds, “there is no sign yet that the Government is doing anything effectivel about food storage at all. To pour out millions for ships, aero planes, artillery, and air raid precautions, and leave the vital problem of food, supplies in wartime unsolved, seems to be a peculiarly dangerous form of mental deficiency. The •Government may have got further with its plans than the public knows, but there is lio reason why the public should not know. If it does not, it cannot he blamed for concluding that there is nothing to know.”