BRITISH FOOD CONTROL.

Taihape Daily Times, 10 July 1919, Page 5

BRITISH FOOD CONTROL.

;"THE-'MEAT"r‘RUST iViEI\TA‘C‘E.“ V ' ' ' ’ H ‘The Pal'iidnlL:iifé.r§? Secre'fa‘ry"t';o {he l food AMinistr§9, Mr 'MeCurdyj spefikihg‘ at Leyton, said tlfat the’ question of 'l'eilnposirlg food control in View of the possibility of high prices during the looming winter was now receiving the ‘close attention of the G'overnm,‘e-nt. He hoped that the period of rationing had passed, but it.’ 'mi‘ght"jb'e ‘necessary to maintain natiohal, “or, possibly, inf.er-Allied, control of“purehases of lsome essential fooclstuffs in order t.o lstabilise prices and cut out speculative ; middlemen. « M A

\‘ There iv»:Ls_no doubt ‘tila’tf.tlle alarming? rise of‘ pi'i<'3‘es' iui _oils' and"'fa"_ts since t‘he'Areni<V)'vaV'l 'of:"co_li"tlj:é_l"'_l'\'éls ilgilrgé. is dud to 1110' illf'erf¢i'e;iifck:"_6f 's‘peCVil]."g_ tons.’ ""r'his"gort gfisi-é'fi.%eé‘l-iiag'»'at the oxpénsb of" the publiAc"_orli'ght {'o iiafe’ beéén "A(lVl‘:.l".%ficTally diealiti wifh. 'l."!lic "r'a'l")id’.‘ inultipli'_(':a’tiOll of t.ru'st:.s a;I):(1: h-hdc combinations with are ohnjrmt of? maintaining and raising prices had proceeded at gmalarniiiig rafe during the ‘last few years of the war, and it was impossible yet to esfiniafo the effect of.Hlis frallsfol'nm: ‘(ion of iTldllSi'i‘_V. 4 No» one cotiid View wifhout alarm the m.-owing power of the Amefican Meat ’l‘r~ls.+ to cxc-ni:1'o1 in its own interests _+l-m food prices of the world‘.