British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume II - Page 997

CHAPTER XXVI.

tions. District Food Controllers in each of the six administrative districts direct the detailed application of measures of control. In 1944, which was the peak period of control, some 710 officers were employed in the Department, but the staff has subsequently been reduced by 216 to the present number of 494. This number is made up as follows :-

Christians MosIems Jews

154 70 270

31% 14% 55%

The high percentage of Jews is due to the fact that their technical qualifications are greater than those of the other two communities.

32. The articles specified in the list on the next page were, at various times prior to August, 1945, declared to be controlled articles. In August, 1945 it became possible to de-control certain commodities; those which were still under control on 1st January, 1946 are marked with an asterisk. The fact that a foodstuff is declared to be a controlled article has no immediate legal effect but merely gives the Food Controller authority to issue such orders as he deems fit in respect of that commodity.

List of controlled articles.

*Acid oils

Aerated waters of every description

*Alcohol

*Alcohol liquors of every description irrespective of the percentage of alcohol contained therein

*All preserved articles of food-

stuffs in containers *.Arak

Bakieli

Barley

Beans of every description *Beer (including ale and porter) *Biscuits

Bran of every description *Brandy

*Bread

Burghol

"Butter, butter substitutes and

edible fats

Cake and meal of fish Cake and meal of meat *Cake and roeel of oilseed *Cakes

Camel

Carob seeds

Carobs in any form (whether

manufactured or not) "Cattle (including buffaloes) Candied fruit peels.

*. Cheese (local and foreign) "Chocolate and cocoa of any

description (including chocolate and cocoa. pastes) *Coffee

*Cognac

*Confectionery and sweetmeats *Dairy products of every description Dulcin Edible starch *Egg powder

Eggs *Fatty acids

*Fish of every description *Flour of every description "Fruite juices and syrups *Fruits, fresh and dried

Fruits, crystallised

*Fruits, preserved in sugar or syrup

Gelbaneb:

*Gin

noats

*halwa

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