MEAT AT HOME.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 November 1919, Page 5

MEAT AT HOME.

WORLD'S EXPORTABLE SURPLUS. By Telegraph,—l'ress Assn.—Copyright. London, Nov. 9. Mr. C. A. McCurdy (Parliamentary {secretary to the Food Ministry), replying to the meat importers, said if control was removed there would probablv Be a temporary fall in the price of imported meat owing to the heavy stocks arriving, while ample supplies of homegrown were available. It was not to 4be interest of the British consumer to snatch at a purely temporary reduction, fcut to assure present and future supplies at the lowest reasonable level. Mr.< McCurdy admitted that the World's prospective exportable surplus Was 1,2!!0,000 tons, but if the restrictions "on consumption were removed Britain would require 1,140,000 tons, not 750,000 tons, next year and the Continent a minimum of half a million tons. there would be no normal surplus. The removal of the meat contool would involve a risk of hipher prices in all tlie markets of the world. . ; The newspapers foreshadow a if : ;> tlon of 2d per lb in the controlled price if bacon, a reduction in the price of boal, an increase of the weekly butter fration to ljoz., and the release from Bond of a greater supply of whisky.— Jjtas.-N.Z. Cable Assn.