Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-05-26
FOOD CONTROL IS WORKED along
SYSTEMATIC Lines IN ENGLAND

in the form most suitable in the cir
Cumstances."
~ Direct the mode Of sale and dis
tribution OF articles.
~ Regulate the market opera
tions" in an article with a view to
preventing an unreasonable initiation
OF the prices.
TO- Prevent the sale Of an article
at a price exceeding an amount named
t) Require the owners OF stocks oil
articles TO place them at the disposal
Of the Board on terms to be determin
ed by arbitration in default Of agree
ment.
(S) Compel a detailed return to be
made of available supplies.
90 Enter premises where articles
are kept, stored. manufactured, OF
produced" and examine the stock and
test accuracy Of any return that may
have been made
Lord Devonport was appointed food
controller. At the time OF this ap
pointment the price OF food was about
IS per cent higher than at the begin
ming Of the war.
The first work undertaken by the
food controller was to take census
Of stocks Of food on hand and to est.
mate the visible supply Of important
commodities. His first restrictive act
was directed against the meals served
in fashionable restaurants in London.
against which there had been criticism
In the house of commons and else
where. On December 6, 1916, the
board Of trade issued, under the de-
Tense Of the realm act, regulations
limiting TO three courses any meals
served in a public restaurant between
the hours Of and $50 pm, and two
courses for meals served at any other
time.
Increase Domestic Production
AS already indicated, the power OF
the food controller extended to the
production Of food. At this junction
Mr.. R. E. Prothero the president OF
the Board Of Agriculture, came for
ward with comprehensive farming
plans to increase the home production
OF food. Under the defense Of the
realm act, the board OF agriculture OBJ
tanned power to enter upon any idle
land and cultivate It, with or without
the owners consent. The first thing
the board Of agriculture did was to
commence a survey or census Of all
the idle land in the Kingdom. To the
local governing bodies have been de-
legated powers to survey any idle land
and to require its cultivation in such
a manner as best 10 conserve the ma
tons interests. Prices we're also
fixed at which the government would
buy the farmers produce. OF the q,
00o, 900 acres Of agriculture land in
England and Waless more than 1S,
000, 1000 is given over to grazing, while
less than one-afth is used for raising
cereal crops. The board Of agricul.
ture has determined that as much Of
this grazing land as is available shall
be plowed up and planted in grain
crops.
Naturally the question Of labor is
q serious element in Increasing home
of food, for the uasn most
capable OF doing such work are nearly
all in the army. &In addition to per
haps 100000 women who are now
on the land, German prison
ers Of war and interned alients have
been put to work cultivating the soil
and some $4,000 skilled plowmen have
been brought back from the front and
loaned temporarily to the board Of
agriculture. Through the ministry Of
the board Of agriculture has
power to obtain motor ,plows and trac-
tors and other farming machinery. It
is reported that good deal of blowing
Is being done by night.
on Flour and Sugar
On January II, 1917, further re-
strictions were placed on the milling
Of wheat flour. Mills which up to that
time were extracting from wheat a
percentage of flour averaging rs per
cent were obliged to add further per.
Of not less than per cent. II
they could get the additional per
cent from the flour they were obliged
to mix the wheat -four with flour de-
rived from barley, corn, rice, or oats.
They were permitted to add yet
voluntary s per cent.
About this time it seemed that there
might be some boarding Of foodstuffs
people buying more than they need
ed for their immediate requirements.
By an order Of the food controller it
was made a DenaI offense for any CON.