“EGG THIS MONTH”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 January 1943, Page 3

“EGG THIS MONTH”

PROMISED TO BRITISH PEOPLE WAR DIETARY AND WAGES. RIEVANCE OF WOMEN WORKERS (Special P.A. Correspondent.) (Received This Day, 10,45 a.m.) LONDON, January 12. “A real egg for you this month,” as the headline announcing the first (lease of eggs in 1943. Fresh eggs ■e now such a rarity that they are died “shell eggs,” to distinguish them om dried eggs. American and Canaan sardines are an innovation in nglish diet, and twenty million tins ive been released. While the cheese ration has been reiced to six ounces, from eight, Briin is eating more potatoes. The conniption in November rose in England r 12.8 per cent, in Wales by 26.4’ per nt, and in Scotland by 2.2 per cent. • To check the increase in the three illion subsidy paid on tea, the price tea is shortly rising by 4d a pound 'er the present retail prices, ranging om half a crown to 3s a pound. Food subsidies are costing the Govnment 127 millions annually. Since the outbreak of war, the week-

■ wages of all workers have risen on 1 average by 66 per cent, while, comired with 1931, more women are eniged in professional occupations than en. A sore point with women is that ;ey receive unequal compensations jr war injury compared with men. pnsideration of the women’s view|int is now being given by a Houstf i Commons select committee.