food controller

It was illegal for the Food Controller to require such an agreement as a condition of any licence.

By Regulations under this statute the Food Controller was empowered to regulate dealings in any article.

In 1917, he was named food controller for Canada, charged with dealing with food shortages and inflation near the end of the war.

Under these powers the Food Controller ordered that no milk should be sold within certain counties except under licence.

When the war came, he was appointed Chief Divisional Food Controller for Scotland and held the post until his retirement in 1946.

All that the case decided was that the Food Controller was acting outside the Regulations since the Regulations did not give the power to tax.

His position as Sinn Féin food controller resulted in his deportation to England in 1918.

Following the war, the Food Controller resigned in 1919 and the Ministry of Food progressively wound down and closed on 31 March 1921.

By 1918, there were controls over almost all aspects of farming; the Food Controller bought all essential food supplies and the Corn Production Act guaranteed cereal prices.

It is capable however, of being correct in its application to a case where the Food Controller had unlawfully demanded and received payment as a condition of allowing any purchase of milk.

He was a member of the Irish Food Convention, Food Controller for Ireland in 1918, in which year he was also admitted to the Irish Privy Council.

In June 1917, Lord Devonport resigned as Food Controller to be replaced by Lord Rhondda, who introduced compulsory rationing of meat, sugar and butter in early 1918.

A meeting of the SCS early in 1917 called for the dismissal of Lord Devonport, the first Food Controller, who had made his fortune in wholesale grocery and was vehemently opposed to cooperation:

He was the first person nominated to the professor's chair of sophistik at Athens, where he was appointed General of the Hoplites, a civic office, which, under the emperors, made him food controller for the city.

In Attorney-General v. Wilts United Dairies Ltd., 37 T.L.R. 884, the defendants resisted an unlawful demand for a levy on milk purchased by them under a licence granted by the Food Controller.

In December 1916, a Ministry of Food was created under the New Ministries & Secretaries Act 1916 and Lord Devonport appointed Food Controller to regulate the supply and consumption of food and to encourage food production.

The position was that the Food Controller, purporting to be acting under Defence of the Realm Regulations, had imposed as a condition of the grant of a licence to purchase milk the payment to him by the purchaser of a charge of 2d. per gallon.