MEAT RATIONING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25428, 8 January 1944, Page 5

MEAT RATIONING

INTRODUCTION IN AUSTRALIA DETAILS OF SCHEME ANNOUNCED (Rec. 0.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 7. 'Details of meat rationing, which will be Introduced in Australia on January 17 were announced to-night by the Minister of Trade and Customs, Senator R. V. Keane. The rationing will be on the coupon system, and persons over nine will receive from 1J to four pounds of meat a week, according to the meat group from which purchases are made. Children under nine will be entitled to half the ratipn. Four coupons will be available each fortnight, and one coupon will enable a purchaser to buy m A group, in which meat has little or no bone, three-quarters of a pound of steak, fillets of veal or pork. In B group one pound of surloin with bone, porterhouse or "T” bone steak, loin cuts or chops. In C group 1J pounds of back ribs or various cuts of lamb or veal. In D group two pounds of gravy beef, minced meat, or various cuts of mutton. Several types of meat, such as sausages, tripe, liver; brains, tongues, ox tails, and kidneys can be purchased without coupons. Members of the services living at home will be entitled only to the civilian ration. No one will suffer from lack _ of nutrition because of meat rationing, said Senator Keane. The Government obtained the best possible advice on this question. The ration for each person will be ample for health and nutrition.