COUPON SYSTEM TO BE USED
(Rec. 11.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, Oct, 26. Australian meat rationing, to commence in January, will be on the coupon system, Mr Curtin announced. The weekly ration will be 2£lb of meat for everyone over nine years of age. Children under nine will receive half that quantity. Coupons will not have to be surrendered for meals in restaurants, canteens, or hotels. In addition to the ration small quantities of canned meat will be made available for civil consumption.
Half Australia's meat production will be set aside for Australian civilians. The other half will be divided between Australian and Allied forces and the civil population of Britain. The Australian meat ration compares with less than lib of meat per head weekly in Britain and about 21b per head weekly in Canada and the United States. Canada also imposes one " meatless " day weekly in public eating houses.
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Evening Star, Issue 25005, 26 October 1943, Page 3
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148COUPON SYSTEM TO BE USED Evening Star, Issue 25005, 26 October 1943, Page 3
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