Pacific
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Australian Rice For South
THE International Emergency Food Committee of UN advised the Rice Association of Australia late in August that the bulk of Australia’s rice exports for 1949 will go again to natives in zones of British influence-in the South Pacific.
The lEFC has sent to the governments concerned its recommendations for the distribution of the 1949 world export supply of rice. Under the “block” system, the supplying country may send no more than its allocation to the importing country. Conversely, no importing coun try will accept any more than its quota.
The Premier of India (Pandit Nehru) has appealed to his people to eat less rice and more wheat, so that the popu lace can exist on 10 per cent, less food —all that will be available to them this year.