Restrictions on Transport of Potatoes
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THEE Minister of Food has issued a under the Food Transport Order, prohibiting the transport of potatoes into or between certain specified areas, except under permit of an authorized officer of the Ministry.
The specified areas are as follow:— (1) London Ilertfordshire, Essex, Kent, Surrey, &mem Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Middlesex, Orlordshire
(2) Dorset, Gloucestershire, Hampshire (including Isle of Wight), Somerset, Wiltshire. (3) Cardigan, Carmarthen. Glamorgan. Hereford. Monmouth, Pembroke, Radnor, 14) Cheshire, Lancashire, Denbigh. Pant, Caernarron, Anglesey, Cumberland, Westmorland.
(51 Worcester, Warwick, Stafford. Shropshire. (6) Cornwall, Devon. (7) Yorkshire. Durham, 'Northumberland.
No one may consign or transport potatoes into any of the named areas,
or from area to area. Transport within the areas is unrestricted by these directions, but is subject to the existing restrictions on forwarding by rail to certain stations in the Birmingham, Manchester and Newcastle districts.
The purpose of these directions is to enable the best use to be made of available supplies. By this system, the Ministry will try to ensure that the potatoes which are sound, but which are not of the best-keeping quality, will be used before other longer-keeping classes. This will avoid wastage of food and increase the supply of betterkeeping potatoes for use at the end of the main-crop season.