RATIONS FOR MINERS.
POLICE DISTRIBUTING FOOD. A LIBERAL HAND-OUT. SYDNEY, June 8. As a result of the coal strike distribution orders tor rations have commenced in the. Lithgow district. The police are the authority who will issue orders to those in distress. A week’s ration for an unmarried man is three loaves of bread, 31b of meat, 4bz ofte a, ’ lib of sugar, 12oz of. jam, lib condensed milk, and %lb of butter. In the case of married people the quantities are increased in proportion to the size of the provision being made for a family, up to ten members.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4985, 9 June 1926, Page 2
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100RATIONS FOR MINERS. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4985, 9 June 1926, Page 2
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