MEAT SHORTAGE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1942, Page 4

MEAT SHORTAGE

ANTICIPATED IN UNITED STATES ON ACCOUNT OF HEAVY SHIPMENTS. TO ARMED FORCES & ALLIES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON, August 17. It is reported from Chicago that Mr Roy Hendrickson, Administrator of Agricultural Marketing, said that meatless days and rationing are a probability shortly in the United States to assure a more equitable distribution of supplies insufficient to meet maximum military and civilian needs. He stated that there would be a shortage of 3,000,000.0001 b. of meat. He explained that the shortage was caused first, by huge shipments to the armed forces, and secondly, shipments of meat to Britain and Russia. He said that the meat going to Russia, where the fighting was most active now, was the most important meat on earth. “The meat that goes to EJritain will be in the same category when the second front opens.”

Thirdly, domestic consumption was soaring on a record national income expected to reach 115 billion dollars in 1942, compared with 90 billions in the boom year of 1929.