AUSTRALIANS’ MEAT
RATION CUT URGED DEBATE AT CANBERRA CANBERRA. May 23. “If the United Kingdom fails Australia will fail, too. The Opposition is fully prepared to share with the Government any political unpopularity attendant on authorising further cuts in Australia’s meat ration. Such a cut should be made without delay,” said Mr. R. G. Mcnzies in the House of Representatives. i , ~ He continued that lie did not believe Australians were so mean that they would blame the Government for this. It was true that the meat consumption in Australia was 4.1 b. or more a week because about lib per head was being eaten outside the ration. The speech was made during the reading of a bill to give Britain £25,000,000.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22338, 24 May 1947, Page 5
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121AUSTRALIANS’ MEAT Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22338, 24 May 1947, Page 5
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