SMALLER MEAT RATION

Grey River Argus, 5 February 1945, Page 5

SMALLER MEAT RATION

AUSTRALIAN CABINET’S | DECISION. CANBERRA,. February 3. Australian civilians are to get approximately 4oz. less meat each week. The reduced ration scale will come into force on February 26—the same day that the egg priority plan begins. The meat ration reduction, which is being made because of the drought and Australia’s war commitments, is estimated to save 40,000 tons of meat. - In announcing the Federal Cabinet’s decision to tighten the meat ration scale, the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) said that Australian meat was fulfilling a *ital war need in many countries. In the last few months new elements had come into the food picture.. Britain had come to Australia’s aid with Pacific naval reinforcements and the British Pacific Fleet must be provisioned from Australian resources. Australia had also been requested to supply substantial quantities of meat .to feed the Allied forces lighting in Burma. These demands we,re additional to the earlier obligations to supply meat for British civilians and the Allied forces in the South-west Pacific.