BRITISH MEAT COUPONS

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11474, 28 February 1918, Page 2

BRITISH MEAT COUPONS

AUTHORITY TO PURCHASE. ATTACK ON PROFITEERS. London, Feb. 10. Lord Rhondda’s scheme for food control seeks to deal with a complicated problem by means of a card representing both value anti the weight of meat. The card is divided into coupons worth od each of which three may bo used weekly for the purchase of butchers’ meat, the fourth coupon representing the weight used of bacon, game, sausage, or tinned meats. It is hoped that the run on butcher’s moat will thus be relieved. People who are poultry eaters will have at least two meals weekly. It is understood that customers in restaurants will hand over half a coupon for each meal, receiving ;Jok. of meat. They will then pay whatever charge might be made for the meal. The public will practically be prevented from buying hindquarters, as the restaurants with big cooking plants can put those joints to more economical use than private people. A meat rationing scheme for London home counties, issued on Saturday, provides for the use of meat cards bearing four coupons, e.mb of which enables the purchase during a week of td-worth of uncooked meat or alternatively of uncooked poultry, game, or horseflesh, ranging from soz to 13U'oz, according to description, or alternatively 3oz. of boneless or 4oz. of- bony uncooked ham or bacon, or alternatively Goz. to Soz. of uncooked s ms >ges, according to the meat contents. - Iternatively any of the foregoing may bo bought in cooked and c uned state, or as s ndwiches or meat pies up to between 2)£oz, and -loz. Puplic eating housekeepers have to collect coupons in respect of all me-ils served.

The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food, Mr J. R. Olyues, speaking at Manchester on Saturday, said that scores of small profiteers had sprung up, and wrere making an effort to get an extra copper in the shilling out of consumers. '.they aud the food hoarders must be dealt with. He preferred comp my deserters aud conscientious objectors to persons who were deaf to’ all appeals aud were selfishly grasping money aud food for themselves. The situation might warrant some discontent, but not disloyalty or the threat to strike. Peace could not be got by trusting to the mercy of their foes. Ho did not believe that any section of labour would dishonour itself by asking the Government to hoist the signs! of surrender.