BUTTER AND BACON
BRITISH RATIONING SCHEME.
[BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESB.I
(Received November 6, 19.45 a.m.) RUGBY, November 5.
Although no definite date has been officially announced for the introduction of the rationing of butter and bacon — the only two commodities which it has been considered necessary to ration in the l near future 1 - it has been announced to take place some time in mid-December. Recently, the Press suggested that rationing may be postponed until after Chiistmas. » . .. x-i, <. Informed quarters point out tnat the introduction of the. rationing -scheme for butter and bacon does not !dqnote a permanent shortage in ‘either commodity. Normal percentages ’of. the total imports from Denmark are 'bacon 50 per cent, and butter 25 per cent. A temporary dislocation of supplies, due to the submarine campaign, occurred for a brief period at the end of September, but the- convoy system now' enables the resumption of shipments on a satisfactory scale, and ample butter from New Zealand and bacon from Canada is assured, the United Kingdom having first claim on all supplies of the. former.
EMERGENCY POWERS ACT.
LONDON, November 5.
A conference of 800 delegates on civil liberties in wartime passed a resolution viewing apprehensively the Government’s drastic powers under the. Emergency Powers’ Act, and pledgresistance to the introduction of industrial conscription. RAILWAY SERVICES. RUGBY, November 4. The first urgent emergency demands on transport facilities, and the incidence of the A.R.P. regulations, have involved the British railways in an inevitable dislocation of certain services, but rapid progress, is being made in restoring them to normal functioning one by one.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 6 November 1939, Page 8
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