FIVE-SHILLING MAXIMUM

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 118, 22 May 1942, Page 6

FIVE-SHILLING MAXIMUM

PRICE 01 MEALS IN BRITAIN. Rugby, May 12. A maximum basic charge of five shillings lor a meal in public restaurants, and a maximum of three courses per meal and the prohibition of fish, game, and poultry on certain days in the week are the main provisions of an order to become operative on June 1 announced b\ Lord Woolton, Minister of Food, *in the House of Lords. The consumption of food in catering establishments, said Lord Woolton. will be prohibited between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. m the provinces and midnight and 5 a.m. in the Metropolitan Ponce area, except for hotel residents and catering establishments licensed for service to night workers and travellers. The Minister intends to make restrictions on the price of whisk v, gin. and beer served in restaurants, and ii is probable that the house charge will be fixed at not more than 7s fed, and for dancing and cabarets not more than 2s 6a. The service charge will probably be 10 per cent. 'lnus the totai cost for a meal, dancing, cabarei. and house charge and cover charge should not exceed 16s 6d. 8.0.W.