MEAT CONSUMPTION EXCEEDS RATION
Black Market Dealings <8.40 p.m.' CANBERRA. Sept. 27. Between 20 and 30 per cent more meat was being consumed in Australia than was provided for under rationing, said Mr J. J. Clark, a member of the Commonwealth Meat Advisory Committee, in the House of Representatives to-day. This was being done by black market operators, who were selling meat at big profits. Mr Clark said that durinc the war Britain had obtained big meat supplies from the United States but these had now stopped and Britain needed bigger quantities from Australia.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23317, 28 September 1945, Page 5
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