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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 March 1942, Page 3

SIXTY PER CENT

OF BRITAIN’S RESOURCES APPLIED TO GOVERNMENT PURPOSES. STILL GREATER SACRIFICES IN PROSPECT. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 17. The Lord President of the Council, Sir John Anderson, who, as he explained, is the War Cabinet Minister responsible for the Home Front, gave a review of war time restrictions effecting civilians. Sir John said Britain was spending almost 60 per cent of her resources on Government purposes, as edmpared with under 20 per cent before the war. Though that was a great advance, they could go still further, he said. The cost to the State of preventing prices from rising to the heights to which the war time shortage of many goods would push them was more than £100,000,000 a year. So that they would be in a position to reverse the serioits setbacks of the past, every tonof shipping and every ounce of labour power that could be spared from meeting civil needs was required. “We have already cut down a great deal, but there is still a margin on which we can draw in an emergency and in the months ahead we shall have to draw oh it,” said Sir John Anderson. “The confidence of our Allies will be confirmed and the hopes of our enemies confounded by the knowledge that this free people are ready to accept any necessary privation and know that the cause for which we are fighting is one for which no sacrifice is too great.” ■ ~