POTATO RATIONS
INCEPTION IN BRITAIN (11 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 9.
Potato rationing will be instituted in Britain from Monday. Adults will get. 31b weekly, children under five 1 Jib and expectant mothers 4Jlb. Catering establishments and canteens will be rationed on a similar scale, with additional allowances for industrial and school canteens. School feeding centres will be allowed eight ounces a child each for the main meal. The Minister of Food, Mr. J. Strachey, said the potato rationing will apply to England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland.
Persons between the ages of five and 18 years will receive, as long as rationing lasts, one additional bread unit a week. Industrial canteens will get 12 ounces of potatoes per head for each meal and normal catering establishments 3 3-7 of an ounce per person per main meal. Mr Strachey said that as a result of a very dry summer the potato yield of 6.4 tons per acres was the lowest since The Minister also announced that chocolate and sweet ration would .be reduced from January 4, 1948, from four to three ounces weekly. The total allocations of sugar for manufacturing purposes would be reduced by 25 per cent.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22481, 10 November 1947, Page 5
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