On This Day, 9 March 1918

Birmingham Mail

Saturday 9 March 1918

BIRMINGHAM WEEKLY FOOD BULLETIN.

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Notice to Retailers and Householder:  Rations for Birmingham for next week:-

4oz Butter or Margarine per person

1oz Tea per person

8oz Sugar per person.

Meat.—Meat cards have now been delivered to householders, who should take them at once to their present butcher. The coupons will not come into use until later, when the following rules should be observed:-

(1) Each card contains four meat coupons. The one underlined can only be used for Bacon, Ham, Tinned or Cooked Meats, Poultry, Game, or Rabbits. The remaining three coupons can only be used for fresh meat.

(2) Persons holding an individual card can only register at a pork shop or an ordinary butcher’s.

(3) A family may, if they so desire, deposit one or more cards with a pork shop, and the remainder with an ordinary butcher.

(4) Coupons belonging to cards registered with a pork butcher cannot be used at ordinary butchers, and vice versa.

Meat (Licensing of Wholesale Dealers) Order, 1916:- Wholesale dealers in dead meat must apply for license to the Secretary (Meat Section), Ministry of Food, Palace Chambers, Whitehall, S.W, 1, before March 15.

Sugar.—A leaflet (L.G. Sugar 10) may be obtained by retailers at the Local Food Office, Room 9. Sugar coupons available for next week are No. 3 (blue) and No. 3 (brown). No other numbers can be accepted. Retailers are reminded that ledger accounts are being kept for their stock of tea, butter, margarine, and sugar, and unless they keep strictly to the rations laid down, including supplies to their own families, they run the risk of prosecution with a heavy penalty, and losing their certificate of registration.