NATIONAL RATIONING URGENTLY NEEDED.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14621, 28 January 1918, Page 6

NATIONAL RATIONING URGENTLY NEEDED.

•STATEMENT BY LORD RHONDDA

(Australian and N.Z. Cable? Association)

London, Jan. 25,

Lord Rhondda, speaking at the Mansion House, announced that meat also would be rationed from February 2oth. Compulsory rationing was inevitable and urgent. The whole country would shortly bo governed by rationing schemes, which • would be developed into a national system. He proposed to fix a fair share of meat, margarine and tea for adults and talf that ration for children under six. Inhere was no ground for- suspicion that well-to-do people were getting more than workers.

Two Australian butter •jargoes l-.ave arrived, allowing another' distribution of one-eightli of the January applications, consisting of eqval portions of butter and margarine.