FOOD PROBLEMS AND THEIR SOLUTION

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5327, 13 February 1947, Page 5

FOOD PROBLEMS AND THEIR SOLUTION

(Press Assn-

relief for 20,000,000 GERMANS WITHSTAND WINTER WELL

-Rec. 9.30 p.m.)

LONDON, Feb. 12. The United Nations Children' s Emergency Fund has a plan to spend more than £100,000,000 to feed and clothe more thaii 20,000,000 children and nursing mothers in Europe, which work hitherto has been done by U.N.R.R.A. A United States military spokesman in Germany has stated that Germans in all zones are healthier than was to have been expected. They have eofne through one of the worst winters of the century without serious epidemics. Contagious diseases have in fact, been declining since last October. The tuberculosis rate, Although much higher than before the war, had not varied much in recent months. Imports of bread grain' to the British zone of Germany last month were 428,000 tons, and this month they are expetced to be large enough to cover the normal need. For the first time in many months it has been possible to build up a few days' emergency supply in the Rhineland.

It is reported here that Italy is to get 20,000 tons of Argentine wheat this month, and between 400,000 tons and 500,000 tons before the end of the year. A record maize crop of 23,000,000 bags is expected in South Africa. A correspondent says that a strange crisis is threatened, because of a shortage of bags. The Government is considering keeping the grain in fuel tanks.