BRITAIN'S FOOD CRISIS NOT YET OVER
Uneasy Months Ahead LONDON, Jan. 2. Mr. Johrf Strachey, Food Minister, in a New Year message to the staff ot the Ministry, said the coming months raight not be easy ones. The world food situaticn had been critically had the whole of the past 12 months, and the crisis was not yet over. World supplies of all staple foodstuffs were still so short that people would suffer terribly if an attempt were made to do with cut control where by supplies were shared out fairly. However, the great food producing" areas of the world were slowly recovering. ^ "We have begun the job of opening up wholly new sources of supply. "For example, cil and fats in East Africa," he said. "It has been the Ministry's essential job to prevent any section of the British people going hungry, and it will in future he its job to see that they become the best fed nation in the world."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5292, 3 January 1947, Page 5
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163BRITAIN'S FOOD CRISIS NOT YET OVER Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5292, 3 January 1947, Page 5
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