FOOD FOR BRITAIN
Sir,-In The Listener of March 11, under the heading "Britain’s New. Villages," appeared the following words: "Britain is not growing enough food or timber for her population, and major steps are being taken to remedy these deficiencies." A fortnight earlier the New Zealand newspapers featured a feport from London to the effect that, owing to the poor demand for vege-
tables at the markets, farmers were compelled to plough in the bumpef’ crops produced by warm weather during Ferruary, over £1,000,000 worth of vegetables being thus destroyed in East Anglia alone. ' So I ask, Sir,.what are we to believe? On one hand we read that Britain cannot grow enough food, and on the other that good food there is being destroved because nobody wants
it:
L. D.
AUSTIN
(Wellington)
(Both could be true.-Ed)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 515, 6 May 1949, Page 5
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136FOOD FOR BRITAIN New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 515, 6 May 1949, Page 5
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