FEEDING-STUFFS. PRICES OF: Report by the Official Sub-Cttee. on Food Policy. Increase per ton. (Appendix).

and the Ministry of Food an increase in livestock prices to compensate for the increase in feeding-stuffs prices would represent but a small change in the existing scale. Consideration of the question whether such a rise is desirable should, they recommend, be deferred in any case until August next. Many important factors which must influence a decision will then be clearer. Moreover, it is probable that by then some further increase in agricultural wages will have taken place and claims will in any event be put forward by the producers for increased prices to meet the increase in costs of production due both to this and other causes.