“TIGHTEN BELTS”
MR. CURTIN’S ADVICE TO ANSTRALiANS Recd. 11.3 U p.m. Canberra, March 16. “The Australian Government will not deplete its armed forces to release manpower for food production,” declared the Prime Minister, Mr. J. Curtin, in Parliament to-day. It was inevitable, Mr. Curtin said, that there must be a choice between fighting the enemy and tightening belts. "Just as this is inevitable, so it is inevitable that there should be no deprivation of manpower from the lighting forces to hold this country,” he added. Mr Curtin was replying to a member who read a telegram from a colleague in Sydney stating: Bread is off, milk is rationed, fish unobtainable, fruit and vegetable prices prohibitive, meat precarious. What are you doing?” "1 hese problems require very serious consideration,” added Mr. Curtin. “In so far as they are due to seasonal conditions they are beyond the ken of the Government. But in so far as they are due to service demands and (would take manpower, our choice beItweer* lighting the enemy and tightening our belts is inevitable.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 63, 17 March 1943, Page 5
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