Meat Rationing In Apia
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From Our Own Correspondent .
APIA, June 14.
THE Apia Food Controller, Mr. D. R.
Eden, has announced that the supply of local beef to the two Apia but cheries is to be strictly rationed to 1,000 lb. weekly each from the herds of the New Zealand Reparation Estates (which control the largest herds of cattle in Samoa), and to a similar amount from any other local source of supply.
No cattle are to be killed without per mission of the Food Controller. Supplies of fresh or salted beef to labourers are limited to 1/- worth per week or Vh lb. per labourer. The export of beef or poul try from Samoa is also prohibited.
Imported fresh beef will also be subject to restrictions.
This announcement came as a shock to local residents. Restrictions are said to be caused by the serious depletion of cattle herds in Western Samoa during the period of the presence of American Defence Forces in the Territory.
Dr. and Mrs. Snodgrass, of Suva, Fiji, returned from an overseas visit in April.