IMPORTANCE OF MEAT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 276, 22 November 1943, Page 4

IMPORTANCE OF MEAT

BRITISH WORKERS’ NEEDS Recd. 6 p.m. Melbourne. Nov. 19. . The urgency of Britain’s food prob- > lem was impressed yesterday op the I Graziers’ Federal Council of Australia bv Mr. Bankes Amery, leader of the British Food Mission. He said that although Britain, with her 47,000,000 people, was still producing two-fifths of her total meat supply, she was in danger of being unable to maintain her 14d meat ration owing to the fall in imports from producing countries. There was no immediate shipping shortage, and actually food was wanted to fill the ships available. Consequently Australia and New Zealand were asked to take steps to increase their exports of meat and dairy produce to the last cunco. The British workers’ health and strength would be threatened if th? meat ration fell below one pound a week, but this ration would be definitely endangered unless Australia and New Zealand continued to supply meat to the country to which they had been glad to send in increasing quantities before the war.