MEAT SUPPLIES
AUSTRALIAN SHIPMENTS
TO BRITAIN. PROMISE OF BIG INCREASE NEXT YEAR. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) SYDNEY, October 25. Failure by Britain to increase her meat imports would mean that the British ration would be cut to less than a shilling’s worth of meat a week, it has been stated officially here. The present British ration is Is 2d a week, representing less than lib. of meat for each person. The Commonwealth Minister of Commerce, Mr Scully, declared today that Australia would send record shipments of meat to Britain next year. “Australia always had plenty of meat, but we have not enough today for all the people we have to feed,” he said. “The Government is therefore asking the Australian people to accept what will be a substantial meat ration scale (about' 211 b. a week) so that we can back the offensive with food.” The Minister emphasised also, Australia’s responsibilities of provisioning the American fighting forces in the Pacific.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 October 1943, Page 3
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159MEAT SUPPLIES Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 October 1943, Page 3
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