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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY,
JANUARY 26,
1937.
KINGS Food Supply in War: ALHAMBRA
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"L.G.'s" HINT
A DEPARTMENT to complete
the formulation of plans for the supply, control and distribu-| tion of food in war-time is to be set up by the Government
It will be known as the Food (De- fence Piana) Department, and al though under the control of the Board of Trade, it will work in. co- operation with the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence.
The director of the new depart- ment is Mr. H. L. French. He is 53.
L.G.'S WARNING.
He has been second secretary of the Board of Agriculture since 1934.
In 1916 he was secretary to Lord Miner's Commission on Home Pro duction of Food; Joint secretary to Princess Kouka has travelled 4,000 Lord Selborne's Committee on Agal- native Budan lo cultural Policy in 1816 of the Food mlies from her London In order to appear in production Department.
He said: British Otni of life in the Bahara..
NEW CUNARD WHITE STAR LINER
To be Built at Birkenhead BETWEEN 30,000
AND 40,000 TONS
"I consider it essential that these plans should be devised, and will do my best to make them good plans. I sincerely hope, however, that is occasion never arisca when we have to use them.
Mr. Lloyd George recently declared that in the last war we came nearer to defeat owing to food shortage than we did from anything else.
For some time MPs have pressed on the Cabinet the need of looking ahead in the matter,
A YEAR WASTED
Sir Herbert Matthews, who served in the Ministry of Food during the war, said: "This step ought to have been taken at least 12 months agu.
In my view, we ought to have six months' supply of Imported wheat in elevators, and SIX months' supply of The Cunard White Star Company are contracting with Mossre, Cam-home-grown wheul in the farmers' mell, Laird and Co., Birkenhead, for stacks on each Feb. 1," the building of an Atlantic Huer of, probably, between 30,000 and 40,000
ions.
Dr. Addison, M.P., Minister of Agriculture from 1930 to 1921, said:
They have an exceedingly capable The following official announce-man as director, but so far as the rest of it is concerned it simply means ment was made recently:
The terms of a contract are in that paper plans will be drawn up. process of being completed between Nothing can be achieved unless some
things."
The new Japanese Diet building, where Parliament met last week for the Brst time.
NEW
LOYAL TOASTS
FORM APPROVED BY
THE KING
The King has approved a recom- mendation of the Home Secretary that the order and form of the loyal toasts to be used at omcial and public dinners shall be as follows:
1. The King.
2: The Queen, Queen Mary and the other members of the Royal Family.
first importance in framing a food defence policy.
There la
only one answer to what
kind of food this must be.
Sir Thomas Middleton's table, pro- duced, I believe, with Mr. French's assistance during the last war, showed that whereas 100 acres of medium grass converted into meat will feed 12 to 14 persons, the equivalent figure for wheat as brend feeds 200 persons, and that potatoes, as veget- ables will feed 400 persons.
THE POLICY TO PURSUE We can store.
Cunard White Star and Messrs. Minister or other has power to do products, and thin and tinned milk
ous advance
enormous
has
regthened,
If we
made in food canning of all
all descrip tions since the war our position in that make the necessary arrangements.
But theac are only devices that would give us breathing space in the event of war to increase fresh food production under the altered condi- tions of war-time.
Cammell Laird and Co., for the building of a passenger steamer for THE POSITION NOW!' the Company's Atlantic trade,
An Agricultural Correspondent This announcement follows one of July, in
which the Cunard White Writes: The position to-day is thot Star Co, stated that they were enter-we are a little better oft in livestock, ing into negotiations with various corn, potatoes and sugar than in 1014. Our tramp tonnage has decreased shipbuilders for the construction of
our merchant tonnage to meet the requirements of by over 35 per cent,
the navy by 1,047 ships. It is more vul- the intermediate services across the nerable than in 1014, ond
the means Atlantic based on Liverpool and
of destroying it are more deadly. London. The total cost of this en-
But where we are much worse off terprise was
estimated W33 then
is in the lowered fertility of the soil. about £10,000,000. The number of
it was added, would fertile and in good heart.
It is livestock that makes the land new liners, probably be eight or more..
An order for a sister ship, it is Therefore a forming policy that eri-Improved at a cost of £8 por acre to understood, will be placed within courages livestock farming is of the become good stock-carrying land. the next few days will
with a Tyneside
firm.
hren
which
WORK FOR 2,000 FOR 2 YEARS The new ship will be the first that Cammell. Laird's have built for the constituent companies of the Cunard White Star since the Samaria in 1920. It will provide work for over 2,000 men for nearly 2 years; in on
"been
hard hit has through unemployment.
It is belleved that the new vessel will be between 30,000 and 40,000 tons, and will have a knottage of between 22 and 23. She will be in improved type of the Britannic | and Georgia vessels.
The new liner will be less than half the size of the Queen Mary (80,773 tons), and of the latter's sister ship, on which works in progress at Messrs. John Brown and j Co.'s Clydebank.
The present Cunard Whilte Star Beet consists of-10 vessels, represent- ing'n total gross tonnage of- 508,048...
Since the amalgamation of - tha- Cunard and White Star Lines, in 1934, aoven of their larger ships, ins cluding the Mauretania, Majestic, Homeric, and Doric, have been Elis- posed of.
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Mr. Hitchens added that the new liner would provide a considerable amount of work not only for Birken- head, but for Shefeld, where: the big forgings would be made. Work would start as soon as the contract was completed.
The company, he emphasised, now has enough work to keep them busy for several years.
Lotters “Posted” in the Sea
A small tin containing four letters. was picked up by a man on New- Kate Beach, near Haverfordwest, recently,
An accompanying note, algned by the keepers on the South Bishop Lighthouse, asked the finder to post the letters, for which sixpence was enclosed, to their relatives
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