MEAT SACRIFICED FOR MUNITIONS

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 4, 6 January 1941, Page 8

MEAT SACRIFICED FOR MUNITIONS

REDUCTION IN RATION (British Official Wireless), (Received 4, 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, Jan. 3. That he was asking the country de«. iiberately to sacrifice meat at home fo* munitions in Libya was among the statements by Lord Woolton, Minister of Food, in commenting on the reduction in the meat ration from 1/10 worth weekly to 1/8 worth from Monday next. He pointed out that meat had been rationed for just on 12 months, and during the period the public ■ had almost normal supplies. Early last month he had warned housewives that there would be some difficulties in the next few months. Here is one of them: “It is the difficulty resulting from our war efforts,” said the Miinster. “We are attacking the enemy; we are striking hard blows at Italy in the Mediterranean, and to do this we had to divert some of the shipping which was previously carrying out meat. We are deliberately sacrificing meat at home for munitions in Libya.” In commenting on the reduction of the meat ration from 1/10 worth of meat & head a week to 1/6 worth, the London Daily Telegraph says: “The reduction is announced during a week in which housewives in many parts of the country have been receiving smaller joints as the result of a general shortage, which forces butchers to make an unofficial cut in the ration well below the level of October 1. Many retailers have been allotting only 1/2 worth and the- butchers in one area reduced the ration by sixpence. “The shortage is due to the fact that the Ministry of Food was forced to release less meat than usual, largely owing to difficulties following the Christmas distribution.” The Evening News says that some North London butchers have been forced to close .io-day because they have no meat and others opened for only a few hours until they were sold out.

NO EIGHT-HOUR-DAY ON WORK ON U.S. BASES (Received 4. 12.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. President Roosevelt, acting on the grounds that an “extraordinary emergency exists,” has suspended the eighthour day for Government employees engaged in constructing bases at sites leased from Britain, .