AUSTRALIA’S RATIONS
BUTTER AND COTTON GOODS (Rec. 12.10) SYDNEY, June 6. An extension of rationing in clotl - ing was announced by the Minister o Trade and Customs, Senator Keane, in a broadcast to-night. Every person in Australia will be rationed to half a pound of butter a week. Towels, towelling, sheets, sheeting, pillowslips a,nd certain types ojt tablecloths and soft Vanishing have also been couponed. Clothin* cot pons must be used for these items of household drapery. _ Senator Keane said that the aACiaffc consumption of butter per head in Australia .had been about ten ounces a week, but the ration of half a pound would be ample for health and nutrition. Urgent demands were made on Australia’s butter at a time when the output had dropped slightly, because of Che diversion of manpower to essential Avar production. The extension of clothes rationing was necessary because Australia was on a strict quota for cotton goods.
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Grey River Argus, 7 June 1943, Page 4
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