Show J Canada c nadi S Suspends speNds Meal Meat Rationing To Ease Surplus OTTAWA March 1 UP Meat UP-Ment Meat S rationing In Canada was suspend suspended ed temporarily today In a move to relieve a surplus market marketS The action was wa announced last ast S S night in n the house 0 of of- commons by Douglas Abbott parliamentary ry as as- to Finance Minister J. J L. L Ilsley lisley who al also o revealed that meatless Tuesdays are being aban aban- No coupons coupon were verc needed for form m meat at and canned cannett salmon after midnight S Officials o of the wartime prices and end trade board emphasized that the suspension was purely temporary tempOrary tempo tempO- and that all machinery for ratIo rationing ng was was' being retain retained d ready for prompt operation again gain gainas as soon a as the supply position requires I The move in Canada came a afew afew at t fe few hours houra after the office of price f f administration in Washington promising 8 8 per cent more meat for American tables In March S announced reductions in point vallies values values val val- ues lies for all aU pork and many beef beer cuts beginning Sun Sunday ay Abbott said that the United States government go was was not keen keenon on Canadas Canada's action but realized that the step had to be taken by bythe bythe bythe the dominion He said that the theOP theOPA OP OPA A A. A in Washington stressed to o othe the Canadian government the advisability ad ad advisability advisability of making clear that th the theS step S was a temporary suspension and not an abandonment S The he s suspension o of m meat tand and salmo salmon sal sal- non mon rationing cut the list lit of con coi consumer con sumer umer rationed goods from eight to six The e list now Includes sugar augar butter tea coffee preserves and evaporated milk It was explained that because the suspension was temporary meat slaughterers with permits will have to continue observing provisions pro of the order respecting slaughtering and stamping of carcasses carcasses car car- casses but that temporarily the they will be limited by quotas and need not report to local rationing boards |