THREATENED IN SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE
(UNITED. PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.)
SYDNEY, 9th August.
A meat famine is promised next week. The Master Butchers' Associationhas resolved that it will be impossible to maintain supplies at the proclaimed rate, thus throwing the responsibility on the Government. The carcass butchers have refused to supply meat to the People's Foodstuff Protection Association, which undertook to demonstrate that it could sell profitably at the. proclaimed prices. A similar.state of affairs exists at Melbourne, where the , butchers -threaten drastic action after Monday. . ■
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 36, 10 August 1918, Page 9
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84THREATENED IN SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 36, 10 August 1918, Page 9
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