In the Commons on Friday week Captain Bathurst stated that
the return supplied by the Master Bakers' Association showed that, in the areas to which they referred, the average consumption of breadstuffs a head in March was six pounds a week, and not four pounds as suggested by the Food Controller. According to a leading firm of London bakers, quoted by the London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, this statement is misleading. The consump- tion of breadstuffs does not represent consumption of bread. People are buying much less bread than they used to, but they are baying and hoarding a great deal more flour, and as the Food Controller takes his figures from the flour millers, he concludes that people are consuming more breadstuffs. We may note that Captain Bathurst warned dog-owners that if they could not keep dogs without wasting human food, the dogs ought to be destroyed.
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