MEAT RATIONING.
NEW ZEALAND CONSUMERS. MORE CARCASES FOR BRITAIN. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) GISBORNE, this day. Methods by which farm production for export could be increased in short order were referred to by Mr. C. H. Williams, chairman of a representative meeting of Poverty Bay and East Coast farmers, who pledged themselves to produce to the limit of their capacity. The importance of rationing, he said, could not be overlooked. The average consumption of meat in New Zealand was 2661b per capita per annum, as against 1411b per capita in peace-time in Britain. If every person reduced his or her consump-. tion by 4oz a day it would mean that 2,400,000 extra freight carcases womld life available for export. By adding an average of 21b in weight to every animal killed for export there would* be the equivalent of 400,000 freight carcases added to the possible exports. He concluded that it should not be difficult to increase the export surplus from New Zealand by 3,000,000 freight carcases.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 152, 28 June 1940, Page 6
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