MARITIME STRIKE.
FOOD SHORTAGE IN QUEENSLAND. RATIONING THE TOWNS. (Received 10.35 a.m.) BRISBANE, this day. Tho position in the northern towns ir g regard to the shortage of food as tin - result of the seamen's strike is becoming desperate. The police at Townsville anc c ; Charters Towers arc rationing the popu s I lace. Before the rationing began a riot a ' occurred in Townsville, caused by th< - | people's efforts to secure supplies o p I bread.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 153, 28 June 1919, Page 7
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79MARITIME STRIKE. Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 153, 28 June 1919, Page 7
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