On This Day, 16 May 1918

Birmingham Daily Gazette

Thursday 16 May 1918

MEAT BY INSTALLMENTS.

ADDITIONAL CONCESSIONS BY MINISTRY OF FOOD.

A new instruction issues by the Ministry of Food confirms the announcement in Tuesday’s Birmingham Gazette giving a list of additional classes of meat and meat articles which may now be purchased without coupons.

It is also confirmed that considerable amendment is made to the table of equivalent weights, in order to encourage the sale of all kinds of edible offal, horseflesh, and other meats not exempted from the coupon regulations.

The new weights available on coupons for bacon and ham have already been announced in the Birmingham Gazette, and have been in force during the past week. An additional concession is now made, making it possible to buy hams and joints of bacon for boiling not only on coupons current in the week of purchase, but by using in advance also as many as desired of the coupons current in the three following weeks.

Any caterer or retailer of cooked meat may arrange, on surrender of a coupon or half-coupon by a customer, to supply him with the meat represented by that coupon in instalment at any subsequent time. A seller must, in such case, give the customer a special token or tokens for production on the occasion of any subsequent purchase in respect of the coupon which is being used in instalments.