MOTHER COUNTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 November 1917, Page 5

MOTHER COUNTRY.

COLD STORAGE INCREASf. SIR. THOMAS MACKENZIE'S VIEWS CONOERNIXG PRICES AND >raOFJf&.

Received 4Hov. 7, 7.4 ft p'xti, .. ■ ' ■ London; &ov. ft At the luncheon given . l*|fc€!»M ptorage ana. Ice Wardle (Government Stiff-age) sfl-Jd the cold storage capacl§3s : '•■£ the; United Kingdom was being increased to forty million cubic feet. He had .- a ready arranged sfote.costitf *' ! abqiithajf a millionaleHing. 5^7 ™.™ v: S> Thomas Mackenzie, who presMsd, , said it ft|fte frftt ,;■ of produce, «Sttp£ ' •'' •itodicapf: while .hlatant disloyalty cow. manded a prcmujin. New Zealand' dai<y. men gotfeeventeen .pence per pound ftr butter, Mi], the price of IffiM" lVt&T was neatly double.' H<s add^btfcifelfe**overseas j, peoplo| were Willing? faiffell #t r'' T low prii s if «» suni e r) gef *2w<, benefit, Hut were not disposeiio. Malta profits aping into the pocket* of tltOM who we|e not 'consumers. .■-.-- -i; v»;f • - Me food problem. t. : i' 'i „, '•. London, No*;* v ■■< lhe Ministry of Food has fixed the ; price of. Danish butter at 22Ss, thtiß bringing imported and home ,prods*d ■[ butter to the same level. Professor Sir Arthur Yapp, Direct* «i '' Food Economy, in a speech in Lo&d "' said that while our food position was serious, the position of .the; Central ■* Powers was still more serious. - The only commodity that Germany had in any degree resembling jßritain wa« potatoes, of which the allowance ttai 71b per head weekly. There was hp te«. in Germany. , ■••■;.' .i. . ' The weekly ration in Germany of bread or flour was 51b for persons doing 4ieavs work and 4%1b for others. Other ration? were: Meat 90z., sugar 60z., biittfi 3*oz. Twenty-six eggs were allowed each person yearly. ' :