MEAT RATIONING

Timaru Herald, Volume CLV, Issue 22785, 8 January 1944, Page 5

MEAT RATIONING

Details Of Australian Scheme

ALLOWANCE OF U TO 41b A WEEK

(11.25 p.m.) SYDNEY. January 7. Details of the 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). Rationing will be on the coupon system and persons aged nine and more will receive from 151 b to 41b of meat a week, according to the meat group from which purchases are made. Children less than nine years of age will be entitled to half the ration. Four coupons will be available each fortnight. One coupon will enable the purchaser to buy meat as follows: —

A Group (in which the meat has little or no bone): Three-quarters of a pound of steak, fillets of veal or pork. B Group: One pound of sirloin with bone, porterhouse or T bone steak, loin cuts or chops. C Group: One and a half pounds of back ribs or various cuts of lamb or veal.

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, oxtails 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 has obtained the best possible advice on this question. The ration for each person will be ample for health and nutrition.”