On This Day, 6 August 1918

Evening Despatch 

Tuesday 6 August 1918

CHEESE SUPPLIES.

Hope of Considerable improvement.

A correspondent having asked the Food Controller whether it would not be possible to use one of the sets of spare coupons in the ration book for cheese has received the following reply, from the Ministry of Food:–“It is within the discretionary power of any Food Control committee to add cheese to the list of rationed foods if think it desirable and necessary.

“The difficulty about cheese is that so large a proportion of our supplies came across the sea before the war, and during the war the farmers have been unable to increase their production enough to make up the large deficiency because they could not get the necessary cheese machines made owing to the shortage of labour, etc. However, wooden cheese machines are now being supplied, and it hoped that supplies of cheese will shortly increase to a considerable extent.”