BRITISH MEAT RATIONING
CONTROLS MAY END NEXT YEAR (Special Correspondent LONDON, September 14. The Minister of Food (Mr G. Lloyd George), speaking at Buxton, said hehoped to end meat rationing next year, and he might be able to end butter rationing if it were possible for Britain to get an extra ounce or so of margarine a head. When sugar rationing ended very soon, only fats—margarine, cooking fat, butter and cheese —and meat and bacon would still be controlled. “Supplies of margarine are available in the world if I could get the currency with which to buy them,” he said. “It would cost about another £22,000,000. If we had enough margarine and cooking fat to meet all the housewives’ and manufacturers’ requirements at reasonable prices, we could afford to take some risks about butter.
“There is no reasonable prospect within the foreseeable future of being able to buy much more butter than we are at present eating. This means that we must be ready for some increase in price if we decontrol butter. There is no other way unless you envisage the indefinite maintenance of rationing, which is clearly impossible.”
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27147, 17 September 1953, Page 14
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