RATIONING OF MEAT

Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24150, 8 January 1944, Page 8

RATIONING OF MEAT

AUSTRALIAN SCHEME EXPLAINED

METHOD OF GROUP PURCHASE

(Rec. 11.45 p.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 7. Details of the meat rationing which will be introduced in Australia on January 17 were announced to-night by the Minister of Trade and Customs (Senator R. V. Keane). Rationing will be on the coupon system and persons over nine will receive from lilb to 41b of meat a week according to the meat group from which purchases are made. Children under nine will be entitled to half the ration. Four coupons will be available each fortnight. One coupon will enable the purchaser to buy in the A group in which meat has little or no bone, threequarters of a pound of steak, fillets of veal, or pork. In the B group will be 11b of sirloin with the bone, porterhouse or T bone steak, loin cuts or chops. In the C group will be Ulb of back ribs or various cuts of lamb or veal. In the D group will be 21b of gravy beef, minced meat or various cuts of mutton.

Several types of meat such as sausages, tripe, liver, brains, tongues, ox tails, and kidneys can be purchased without coupons. Members of the armed forces living at home will be entitled only to the civilian ration. “No one will suffer from lack of nutrition, because of meat rationing,’’ said Senator Keane. ‘‘The Government has obtained the best possible advice on this question. The ration for each person will be ample for health and nutrition.”