FOOD SHORTAGE
Grows in Australia WITH INCREASED WAR DEMANDS (Special to N.Z. Press Assn.) (Rec. 11.50) SYDNEY, Dec. 21. Australia will go short on some food commodities, so the Prime Minister, Mr Curtin, warned to-day. Mr Curtin claimed that, in spite of manpower and transport difficulties, the Commonwealth’s production of meat, eggs, vegetables and fruit is higher than the pre-war production. But next year’s demands for eggs and fresh milk, he said, would be in excess of the supplies available. Many critics believe that the coming year will inherit cumulative effects' of war difficulties on the Australian food front. It has been revealed this week that, in Northern Queensland, residents have been forced to line up for necessities of life “like th e inhabitants of German occupied countries.” Attention is being drawn to the contrast in the food position in Australia and that in New Zealand. A party of New South Wales sheep breeders visited New Zealand recently, when they were buying stud sheep. They were amazed by what they termed “lavish hotel menus and a complete absence of food queues in New Zealand towns.”
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Grey River Argus, 22 December 1943, Page 4
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