CURTAILMENT OF SPENDING
Mr. Curtin’s Appeal
TOTAL RATIONING THE • ALTERNATIVE (By Telegraph.- .-ess Assn.— Copyright.) (Special Australian Correspondent.)
(Received September 6, 9 p.m.)
SYDNEY, Sept. 6.
If public spending is not curtailed all goods in Australia will be rationed, declared the Prime Minister, Mr. Curtin. He appealed to the public not to make this necessary, since it would waste manpower. Mr. Curtin said Australia’s war expenditure this year will be 1450,000,000—m0re than £50,000 an hour. More than half tbb working population is now on war production.
He asked the public, first, to buy only those goods and services needed to maintain efficiency for war work; secondly, to buy only meat essential to health and not to buy beef and pork, which is required for export and service needs; thirdly, not to buy clothes just because you have coupons; fourthly, not to take holidays unless for health reasons; and fifthly, to lend all savings for the war effort.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 291, 7 September 1942, Page 6
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