Letter from William B Hardy to Sir William Ashley Notes that Starling, the chairman of the committee, is in Italy on 'a special mission' -- that the Committee is not meeting much, but has the report on digestibiliry of bread and the memo from the Physiology Sub-Committee to consider -- that they have received a request from Australia 'for a pronouncement upon the diet of the working man' in order to set minimum wages. 21 February 1917