RATIONING IN BRITAIN
Nation Fighting Fit (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, August 11. Announcing that biscuits would come under the “points” rationing system on August 23 and that the sweets and chocolate ration would be increased by one-third, the Minister of Food, Lord Woolton, said that the. Government had succeeded in reducing shipping space, while keeping the nation lighting fit. He warned the public that with the demands on shipping what they were, he would have to make other reductions later. The supply of food must depend on the shipping available, and he Lad just reduced his demands for space because of the greater proportion required for direct prosecution of the war. This did not necessarily mean a reduction in rations, because, space was being saved by various methods, for instance, the boning of imported meat, which had enabled the meat ration to be maintained.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 270, 13 August 1942, Page 6
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144RATIONING IN BRITAIN Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 270, 13 August 1942, Page 6
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