On This Day, 17 August 1918

Birmingham Mail 

Saturday 17 August 1918

FOOD PROBLEMS.

PRICE OF MEAT TO BE INCREASED SOON.

Now that the quality of meat is improving, and the whole finance of the meat-rationing scheme is being examined, it is certain that at an early date the Food Controller will have to announce an increase in the price meat.

The “Evening Standard” learns that this increase will probably be 2d. per lb. on all cuts.

The necessity for increasing the price is due to circumstances which cannot be controlled on this side of the-Atlantic. It is caused largely by the inter-relation of prices between Europe and America. Mr. Hoover’s policy is to encourage supplies. It is better, he holds, to have a country wrestling with high prices than with hunger.

It is a practical certainty that jam will be rationed in the autumn. This will include golden syrup, honey, and any similar “breadspread.”