HEAVY DEMANDS
ON AUSTRALIAN FOOD SUPPLIES. FEDERAL PREMIER’S WARNING. (Special Australian Correspondent.) SYDNEY, December 21. Australia will go short of some food commodities, the Prime Minister, Mr Curtin, warned today. He claimed that in spite of manpower and transport difficulties the Commonwealth’s production of meat, .eggs, vegetables and fruit was higher than its pre-war production, but next year’s demands for eggs and fresh milk would be in excess of the supplies available, he said. Many critics believe that the coming year will inherit the cumlative effects of war difficulties on the Australian food front. It has been revealed this week that in northern Queensland residents have been forced to line up for the necesities of life, “like the inhabitants of German-occupied countries.”
Attention is being drawn to the contrasting food position in Australia and New Zealand. A party of New South Wales sheep-breeders who visited New Zealand recently buying stud sheep were amazed by the “lavish hotel menus and complete absence of food queues in New Zealand towns.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 December 1943, Page 2
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168HEAVY DEMANDS Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 December 1943, Page 2
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