On Saturday last the Food Controller, Lend Devonport, Issued a
statement of great importance. The necessity for some eurtaii- ment of the nation's food consumption is, he declared, urgent, and that being so it was necessary to set forth a statement as to the amount sufficient for each individual. The quantity calculated as being sufficient, 2/ lb. of meat, 4 lb. of bread, a lb. of anger per week per person, has, he tells us, been arrived at " after fun examination of the actual position of stocks immediately available or visible." That is a somewhat illogical sequence to the first statement in regard to sufficiency. To judge by the statement, the standard taken was reached, not by calculating how much we need tee keep us alive and well, but by a calculation of how-much there. is to go round, allowing also a margin to meet not only the actual, satiation but future contingencies.
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