ADELAIDE GRIEVANCE
OUTSIDE OBSTRUCTION FOOD-FOR-BRITAIN FUND (10 a.m.) ADELAIDE. Feb. 14. Because of what the Lord Mayor, Mr. Walker, described as “antagonistic influences from outside the State,” the conspicuously successful appeal for food for Britain has officially closed in South Australia.
The State authorities are complaining bitterly over the sequence of events concerning 230,000 ration coupons which were voluntarily surrendered so that the fund could buy butter, sugar and meat as gifts for Britain.
The Federal Minister of Post-war Reconstruction, Mr. J. J. Dcdman, visited the State in December and commended the scheme but recommended that the best way to help Britain was to destroy the coupons. Following his visit, the fund was denied permits to buy food. State officials took the matter up with the Prime Minister, Mr. J. B. Chifley, who stated that Mr. Dcdman was arranging for coupons surrendered before a certain date fo bo used to purchase food for Britain. What that date is is not yet known. Meanwhile. Mr. Chifley has told the New South Wales Premier, Mr. W. J. McKell. that there is no way under the law by which gifts of food for Britain can be exempted from income tax.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21946, 14 February 1946, Page 10
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