Letter from Sir Kenneth Anderson of the Ministry of Shipping, to William B Hardy Suggests that the Board of Trade could give a more accurate estimate of the men to whom the Food Scale act applies -- is aware that the marine diet is 'considerably in excess' but that the view of the men's leaders is discouraging about the effects of reduction -- that any 'disinclination to continue serving' would not be worth the gain [in foodstuffs]. Notes that the question of importing concentrated foodstuffs is for Lord Rhondda to consifer. 2 August 1917