CARRIER IN GRAIN RACE
CARGO FOR INDIA Sydney, May 1. The Implacable, one of Britain’s largest and fastest aircraft carriers, will join the Australian grain race to famine-stricken India this week. She will be the fifth warship to take wheat to India for the British Food Ministry. A fleet of freighters is carrying the bulk of the grain.
This week 20,000 tons of wheat and flour will leave Sydney for India and within a few weeks a total of 50,000,000 bushels will have been exported. This is more than a third of Australia’s total crop. The whole of the season’s rice crop, estimated at over 50,0)J)0 tons, will also go overseas. , The 'cheese ration in Britain will be reduced on May 20 from three to two ounces a week, but the 12oz allowance for heavy workers will not be affected, says a London message. The Minister of Food, Sir Ben Smith, expressed the opinion that America had relatively done as much as America toward the saving of wheat.
The United States Government has ordered spirits distillers to reduce the use of grain by 40 per cent during May so that the amount saved can be sent to the famine areas.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 14050, 3 May 1946, Page 3
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