FOOD & DEFENCE
COMPREHENSIVE PLANS IN BRITAIN COMPLETE STATE CONTROL IN EVENT OF WAR. EIGHTY MILLION RATION CARDS. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received This Day, at noon.) LONDON, April 17. Food defence plans have been completed and will be operable within ten days. The Food Ministry, after an outbreak of war, will exclusively control all food imported, besides being the sole purchaser of all home-pro-duced food, thus preventing profiteering. All prices will be strictly regulated on the Smithfield and Billingsgate markets and. in order to defeat bombings, will be decentralised in 1400 food committees throughout the country, which are being instructed in such a manner that the despatch of telegrams will start the entire machine.
Bacon, meat, condensed milk, butter, margarine, cooking fats' and sugar will be rationed.
The country can carry on for three months under a temporary food plan. Nineteen million householders’ forms and sixty million ration cards are ready, but the Government’s permafient scheme will replace this fernpofary scheme if the latter does hot previously come into operation. The ration cards will then number 80,000,000.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 April 1939, Page 6
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177FOOD & DEFENCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 April 1939, Page 6
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