BRITISH MEAT SHORTAGE.
'MOST ACUTE RECORDED. QUEUE A MILE IN LENGTH. A. and N.Z. LONDON. Jan. 27. Tho'meat shortage is the most acute recorded. Queues assembled at Smithfield at five o'clock, and the stalls were cleared before noon. Late - comers secured only liver, sheeps' kidneys, and tinned meats. There were many queues in tho suburbs and provinces.
Six thousand workers at Peterborough 'ceased work as a protest against tho food shortage, and marched in procession to a ground where speakers urged tho striko to continue until tho food supplies wero adequate.
Tons of diseased meat reaching Smithfield from Ireland is being condemned as unfit for consumption.
Mounted police specials wero called out at Tottenham and Edmonton to control a queue a milo long. At Bootle tho crowd stoned a food official while ho was making an effort to commandeer margarine.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16760, 29 January 1918, Page 5
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