“EAT MUTTON”
APPEAL TO AUSTRALIANS SHORTAGE OF BEEF (Special Australian Correspondent.) (9 a.m.) SYDNEY, Aug. 14. Australian greyhounds may have to sacrifice their beef ration for the war effort. Beef suplies must be carefully distributed to ensure-adequate meat for tinning for the Allied forces in Australia. and the racing greyhound tor his size is the most voracious heeleater in the Commonwealth, according to the Commerce Department report. ' , , . Because of a shortage of beef and a surplus of mutton, the Minister ot Commerce, Mr. W. J. Scully, is appealing to Australians to “eat mutton for victory.” Regulations to conserve beef supplies will be issued if .the appeal does not have the desired effect. Feeding beef to dogs will be banned. , . . Beef, tinned and in concentrated form for iron rations, is the staple diet of the fighting forces particularly the Americans, who have been unable to cultivate a palate for mutton. --
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20863, 15 August 1942, Page 3
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