“NOW YOU KNOW”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 May 1943, Page 4

“NOW YOU KNOW”

BRITAIN’S FOOD IMPORT PROBLEMS. DURING OPENING MONTHS IN NORTH AFRICA. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 12.5 p.m.) RUGBY, May 13. Mi- W. Mabane told the House of Commons that fox* three months after the landing in North Africa, the total shipping available to the Ministry of Food was barely sufficient to bring in even the grain needed fox' use during that period. “Now,” he said, “you will perhaps understand why Lord Woolton (Food Minister) was so anxious that you should eat potatoes instead of bread.” Mr Mabane said that provided, as he confidently believed, home agriculture continued to produce as large a proportion of our food as during this year, the country could be confident that the national larder would continue to be well stocked. Oux’ scientists could now properly relate food and fitness. We were out to produce and import not merely food, but food values, not merely filling but nourishing food. “After the war,” Mr Mabane’ observed, “many foodstuffs will be in short supply. The grand strategy of food in war time has its lessons fox* the period of disturbance that will inevitably follow the final collapse of the Axis. The way to inflation is competitive buying between the nations of the world.”