FOOD SHORTAGE.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1919, Page 5

FOOD SHORTAGE.

TBOUBLE FOR SOUTH AFRICA. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Capetown, Dee. 19. Tils embargo on the export of foodstuffs continues. The railway union is in sympathy with the members of the inland centres, and is taking action to prevent railage to the coast.—Renter. Mr. Burton interviewed the local trade union secretaries and pointed'out that the Government had already stopped the *zpott&tjon of meal, bacon and eggs, and would act similarly with other commodities of which a shortage existed. The <3tf»«rnment was doing its utmost to protect consumers, while heeding the importance of not destroying the export trade. He characterised direct action amongst the whites as most dangerous aixLrepreheasible, being calculated to inflfine the native mind.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. FRENCH BREAD SUBSIDY CEASES. Paris, Dec. 18. The Government has decided to withdraw the bread subsidy, which is costing 160 millions sterling. It would have been even higher, but for favorable contracts in Australia and America, which had now ended. American wheat costing 100s the Government had been selling to French bakers at 40s. The price sf bread will nov be about doubled. The old scheme resulted in terrible waste of bread, which wa* sometimes cheaper than potatoes. Agriculturists used bread to feed pigs, chlekens and rabbits.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable 4"°.