RATIONING OF TEA TO CONTINUE IN AUSTRALIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 October 1947, Page 5

RATIONING OF TEA TO CONTINUE IN AUSTRALIA

(Rec. 11.45 a.m.) t SYDNEY, This Day. 'ln the past year 2,000,0001bs of tea has been bought on the black market in Australia, said the deputyDirector of Rationing, Mr E. L. Ford. These sales had cost the Federal Government £25,000, because it paid a ‘subsidy of 2s 6d per lb on all tea landed in Australia.

.Mr -Ford said that tea would continue' to be rationed. He added that in- New Zealand the subsidy on tea had been. lifted and the price was 5s 5d per lb. A similar rise would take place in Australia if the subsidy was lifted. ‘Mr Ford said clothes rationing had been respected and the black market in clothing was infinitesimal. EX-SOLDIER CHARGED WITH USING INSULTING WORDS (Rec. 10.45 a.mj LONDON, Oct. 10.

One of the leaders of the British League of - ex-Servieemen, Edward Jeffrey Hamm, aged 32, appeared on remand in the North London Court, charged with using insulting words likely to cause a breach of the peace at a public meeting at Dalston on September 21, and charged with a similar offence on September 14.

Hamm was remanded to November 18.

The prosecutor, Mr M. Crump, read extracts from a transcript of Hamm’s speeches at both meetings, in which he . said:' “Communism in Britain would mean the British would become the complete slaves of the Jews. We will fight it to the death. Pale, - pink, palpitating pansies who come here with long hair and painted toenails have been chanting, ‘We don’t want Fascism.’ I say we don’t want Jewish Communism.”

Mr Crump said that the crowd then took up the chant, “We don’t want Jewish Communism.” He said that'Hamm four times led his supporters in the call, “We want Mosley.’,’ Mr Crump said that many arms were raised in the Fascist salute.

Detective - Inspector William Whitehead said that at the meeting on September 14, the police had to separate rival factions. He added that towards the end of the meeting on September 21, the crowd was whipped into a complete frenzy. A crowd of about 200 surrounded Hamm when he left the _ court. Friends and police escorted him to a bus, where he opened a bus window and waved to the crowd.