NEARLY A FAMINE
MEAT SUPPLY IN SYDNEY. It appeara that hut for measures taken by tho-- New South Wales Qovernment Sydney would , last week have bad an unprecedented meat famine. Cabinet' secured the whole of the mutton supplies in cold storage m Sydney under contract to the Imperial Goveminent, and these were made available to the public at reduced prices. Then 1000 tons of beef were obtained for- Queensland, and. this assisted mar tonally ~ in- supplying the requirements of the public. In the .meantime! local .supplies of frozen mhtton were becoming exhausted,' ■ and, m order that the public should not go short, Mr . Osborne (consumers’ representative on the Meat Board) was authorised to go to Melbourne to obtain po» tion of the stocks held there under contract to the Imperial Government. In this mission Mr Osborne was successful. Supplies of fresh_ beef conaiderably improved; and with frozen stocks from Queensland and Victoria the - Government hoped to maintain supplies of beef and mutton until September, when a return to conditions approaching normal was anticipated.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10687, 6 September 1920, Page 10
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