On This Day, 17 November 1916

Birmingham Daily Gazette (excerpt)

Friday 17 November 1916

WHAT WAR BREAD WILL BE LIKE.

NEW FLAVOUR AND COLOUR.

SOME BIRMINGHAM VIEWS.

Food Proposals.

ESTIMATED SAVING IN WHEAT.

Whatever surprise may have been occasioned in Birmingham by the proposals of the Government to take control of the production and distribution of the country’s food supply – and their drastic nature and far-reaching effect were more than almost anyone expected – there is not the slightest doubt that the bulk of public opinion is favourable to them.
A prominent baker told the “Gazette” that the steps of the Government were taking would necessarily result in cheaper bread though the use of offals would lower the price.
The limitation of the wheat supply will, of course, have a direct effect on bread, and Mr. John Moreland last night expressed the views of the corn trade on the subject to a “Gazette” man.
“There is no pessimism among members of the milling industry over the proposal to increase the percentage output of flour,” he said. “On the other hand the general opinion of the millers is that the increase can be secured with no inconvenience or loss to those engaged in flour productions, with no hardship on the consumer and with a very useful reduction of the national outlay on wheat – which is the object aimed at.”