BRITAIN'S FOOD PROBLEM.
MEAT SHORTAGE. LONDON, Jan 4. Butchers stood in long queues atSmithfield before daylight to-day. The wholesalers are without mutton. It is stated that the Governmen is releasing two thousand carcases of frozen mutton to-morrow. FEELING THE PINCH. QUEUES EVERYWHERE. Received 10 a.m. LONDON, Jan 6. There; is great competition in London for corned beef sausages, poultry, j and fish. Queues are everywhere, | with unprecedentedly liigh prices and j bones are eagerly purchased. The wholesale price of best English wild i rabbit is 3s 6d. !
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Taihape Daily Times, 7 January 1918, Page 5
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87BRITAIN'S FOOD PROBLEM. Taihape Daily Times, 7 January 1918, Page 5
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