Nutrition and Food Supplies
1936-09 1936 1930s 33 pages : illustration flour, and flour milled in this country from home-grown and imported wheat. The Commission collects the levy from the millers through a Flour Milling Corporation, and distributes the amount among the farmers to cover the difference between the market price...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
| Language: | English English |
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London : The Labour Party
September 1936
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| Summary: | 1936-09
1936
1930s
33 pages : illustration
flour, and flour milled in this country from home-grown and imported wheat. The Commission collects the levy from the millers through a Flour Milling Corporation, and distributes the amount among the farmers to cover the difference between the market price and the guaranteed price. The millers pass the cost of the levy to the bakers and the bakers pass it to the housewife. The Wheat Subsidy represents a tax on bread of over £24 millions in four years which does not appear in the Budget. The 4-lb. loaf has gone up by more than 1d. since 1931, and about half of this increase is due to the levy. There are comparatively few homes where there is a shortage of bread, but an increase in the weekly bread bill cuts down the purchase of other food. On 12 quartern loaves per week the cost of the levy could buy, at present prices, 2 pints milk, 5 eggs, or 10 ozs. New Zealand butter. Potato Marketing Scheme This scheme is designed to maintain prices through a manipulation of supplies (a) by limiting the acreage under production, (b) by regulating the size of marketable potatoes, and (c) by controlling imports. Since the inception of the scheme in 1933, the average retail price of potatoes has risen from 5½d. per 7-lbs. in 1933 to 6¼d. in 1934, and 6¾d. in 1935. While there is probably no serious shortage of potatoes in the homes of the unemployed — indeed, many families have too much bread and potatoes, and far too little food of high nutritive value — an increase in the price of potatoes, as of bread, means less to eat of other things. The Potato Marketing Board made an experiment for 8 weeks in 1935, in Bishop Auckland, of selling “surplus” potatoes to the unemployed at reduced prices. As a result there was a net increase in the consumption of potatoes in the area of 69 per cent. during the period. This is the basis for suggestions that the consumption of potatoes might be increased to a similar extent over the whole of the lower income groups of the population, but such a conclusion is scarcely warranted by the facts. We do 20
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