HOMER COUNTRY.
THE FOOD PROBLEM. PROMOTING ECONOMY. London, Not. 4. Queues are formed outside many Lonlon provision shops, owing to the shortage of teft, sugar, butter, and margarine, tod shopkeepers limit their customers' purchases. The prices of meat are being pwered. At Lhtndilo colliers stojjped butter arts, declaring thtt t,he local wants arere not supplied. The police are inlucing the owners to pell half their proluct loeaUj* They f jrmed queues and icted a* sellers of single pounds. , Sir Arthur Yapp, Director of Food Scontlmy/ has announced the formation if a Lcftgue of Nation il Safety to pronote food economy. Members will sign in undertaking to hej> victory by presenting, waste. samttsa and ge!.«jrals visit iTALf. London, Not. !■*. The Fries* Bureau states that Mr. Lloyd George is goirg to Italy, General finldtt, Sir William Robertson, Generals Wilson (tSa Mauric;, and other officers fc<»nljfflaTjng him. MDOTMON FilM PROSECUTED. London, Nor. 4. ■fle Ministry of Munitions is prosecutkg Arthur Brown, managing director of ft first which contracted to supply the Freudh Got*nunent with bombs for the Stokes gap It is alleged that many of Dm bonAta were defective, and' would Iswe kiHeithe gunners firing them. It is no j believed tnat defendant acted treacherously, but only with reckless disregard of the consequences.
COMBING am STRIKE ENDED. (London, Nov. 4. lIS majority against striking over the proposal to comb out eligible* in the South dValee mines is now over 52,000. JOAIrOWNESS' TERMS REJECTED. ' ' London, Nov. 4. Hie South Wales examiners rejected the coal-owners' conditions, but in view ©f the country** peril agreed to resume
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 November 1917, Page 5
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261HOMER COUNTRY. Taranaki Daily News, 6 November 1917, Page 5
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