BRITAIN’S FOOD NEEDS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 November 1943, Page 4

BRITAIN’S FOOD NEEDS

RELIANCE ON NEW ZEALAND & AUSTRALIA TO HELP IN MAINTAINING MEAGRE RATIONS. STATEMENT BY LEADER OF MISSION. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Britain, the beleagured island of the North Sea, had now, with the help of Australia and New Zealand, survived four years of blockade said Mr Bankes Amery, leader of xhe British Food Mission, yesterday. Britons, however, had reached a stage when their meagre rations were endangered. They therefore were wondering whether there was anything Australia and New Zealand could do to help them further. Mr Amery describing the efforts made by Britons to help themselves. He said fine crops of vegetables, and even litters of pigs, were being raised in cleared parts of blitzed London, but Britain was unable to produce sufficient meat and dairy produce to feed her 47 million people. She was quite content to carry on till the end of the war with 14d worth of meat a week, and two or three ounces of butter and cheese respectively. Unlike Oliver Twist, she was not asking for more. She was confident producers and consumers in Australia and New Zealand would see that the ships Britain had undertaken to provide were loaded with supplies just sufficient to maintain that ration.