Food hi. Wartime If the country is called on to
put into operation the ex- ensive plans for the control and distribution of food in time of war which the Government has drawn up it will start .rom a point which was only reached after two years of the last War. The essentials of the scheme are the rationing of individual consumers and the Government control of food purchase and distribution. Reserves of essential foodstuffs should meet the inevitable dislocations of the first few weeks. The existing trade organisations would be utilised, and their Nvholehearted co-operation is essential. Already fourteen hundred local committees are planned to deal with the whole of the retail side of food-supply and co-ordinate the work of local traders with that of the Government Department responsible for supplying food. The rationing of such com- modities as butcher's meat, bacon and ham, butter, margarine and other fats, and sugar should assure every con- sumer of an adequate supply of essential foodstuffs ; appar- ently no such shortage of wheat as to necessitate the rationing of bread is anticipated. Milk will have to be carefully watched, more from the point of view of distribution than of supply, in view of the probable extensive shifting of popula- tion. The preparations as a whole sound efficient.
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