Meat Stores Full, Ration Still Small
LONDON, Mon., (11 a.m.).—The National Federation of the Meat Traders today passed a resolution instructing the executive to take early action to combat nationalisation.
In his presidential address to the federation, Mr J. E. Baldwin said meat which filled Britain's cold stores and even some of her refrigerator ships almost to capacity, was deteriorating in quality and would probably be issued for consumption when it was “store stained,’’ frostmarked or in bad condition.
Meanwhile, the British people were restricted to a ration “as small as any they had known. The Evening News says hundreds of sheep carcases are being condemned by food inspectors at Stnithfield market today.
The shipment, imported by the Food Ministry, arrived in England from Holland on Friday.
Market employees claimed that the carcases had to be held over the week-end. They should have been put in cold store,
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Northern Advocate, 27 September 1949, Page 5
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