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AMENDED VICTUALLING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SHIPS AND
ESTABLISHMENTS IN GENERAL MESS AND ON STANDARD
RATION.
(A) REVISED FIXED ISSUING PRICES FOR PROVISIONS.
With reference to Navy Order No. 284 of 1922, the following is a complete
list of all articles of provisions for which a fixed issuing rate will obtain as
from 1st October, 1922. The rates shown are to be charged for all issues
to the General Mess and to Repayment Messes in H.M.A. Ships and Establishments,
including vessels where the Standard Ration system of victualling
is in operation :—
Fixed
Fixed
Article. Issuing
Price.
Article. Issuing
Price.
Bacon, in sides Is. 2d. lb. Mustard 2s. 5d. lb
•Barley, pearl l|d. lb. •Oatmeal 2id. lb.
Beans, haricot .. 3d. lb. •Oats, rolled 3id. lb.
* ,, lima 4Jd. lb. Peas, dried 2d. lb.
Biscuit, cabin 5d. lb „ split 3id. lb.
Bread l}d. lb. Pepper 1B. 4d. lb
Butter, fresh
„ tinned
Is. 7Jd. lb. Pickles, various
Is. lOd.lb. Powders—
Is. botth
Chocolate Is. 2d. lb. •Baking Is. 3d. lb
•Chutney lid. 13-oz. •Curry.. Is. 4d. lb
Coffee, pure
bottle •Custard
Is. 6d. lb. Rice
lOd. lb.
2id. lb.
•Cornflour 7d. lb. Salt, fine Id. lb.
Dripping, fresh 5d. lb. Sauces—
Eggs, new laid Is. 9d. dor. Tomato 7id.l3-oz.
Fish, tinned—
bottle
•Herrings, fresh 9Jd. lb. tin Worcester 6d. 13-oz
* ,, kippered Hid. lb. bottle
* „ in tomato
tin Suet, tinned
8id. lb. tin Sugar
7d. lb.
4id. lb.
•Salmon, red Is. lb. tin •Tapioca (seed or pearl) 3d. lb.
•Sardines 6d. lb. tin Tea, Ceylon Is. 2d. lb
Flour lid. lb. Tomatoes, tinned lOd. 2-lb
Fruits, dried—
tin
•Apples • 9d. lb. •Treacle .. 3id. lb.
•Apricots Is. 6d. lb. •Vermicelli 5d. lb.
Currants 7d. lb. Vinegar lid. pint
•Peaches Is. lb. Meat, fresh—
•Pears .. lid. lb. Beef, f orequarter 2d. lb.
•Prunes 8d lb. „ hindquarter 4id. lb.
Raisins
Sultanas
8d. lb.
lid. lb.
„
,,
rolled ribs ..
thick flank ..
5id. lb.
5d. lb.
Fruit, tinned lid. 2-lb. ,, topsides 5id. lb.
tin ,, corned, without bone.. 5d. lb.
Golden Syrup 4d. lb. Mutton, carcass 4d. lb.
•Hops 3s. lOd. lb. ,, chops 6d. lb.
•Honey 6id. lb. Pork, corned lid. lb.
Jams and Marmalade 7d. lb. Veal, in quarters 4d. lb.
•Lard, tinned 8id. lb Vegetables, fresh-rr
•Macaroni 5d. lb. | Cabbage 1 Jd. ib.
Meats, preserved— Carrots l|d. lb.
Beef and Mutton lid. lb Onions Id. lb.
Rabbit .. 8d. lb. , Parsnips lid. lb.
Milk, unsweetened ... 9d. 12-oz. Swedes lid.lb.
tin Potatoes Id. lb.
NOTE.—(i) The purchase of Hind Quartern of Beef separately is approved only at Sydney and Melbourne
(including Westernport). At other ports, Fore and Hind' Quarters must be purchased in equal
quantities, pending further instructions to the contrary.
(li) ArticleB against which an asterisk Is shown have been added to the list of fixed issuing price"
Is force immediately prior to 1st October, 1022.
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2. The prices of articles of provisions not provided for in the foregoing list
are to be. regulated as follows :—
(a) Supplies under local contracts—To be charged for at contract rates-
(b) Supplies from Royal Edward Victualling Yard—To be charged'for at
prices inserted in Supply Notes by the Victualling Store Officer.
On the first day of each quarter the prices of all such provisions
remaining on charge are to be averaged to the nearest farthing,
and such average price is to apply until all such stocks carried
forward to a new Provision Account have been expended.
(c) Supplies purchased other than (a) and (b)—To be charged at actual
cost price.
3. The special attention of Accountant Officers is drawn to Navy Order
No. 203 of 1922, which is still applicable, and which is to be closely observed
in all Ships and Establishments.
4. Consolidated Navy Orders 1911-1920, Article 309, and Navy Order
No. 49 of 1921, are hereby cancelled.
(B) REVISED STANDARD RATION AND MESSING ALLOWANCE FOR SHIPS: NOT
VICTUALLED ON THE GENERAL MESSING SYSTEM, AND INSTRUCTIONS
GOVERNING SAME.
As from 1st October, 1922, the Standard Daily Ration in the Royal Australian
Navy shall be as follows :—
Bread, 12 ozs. ; Butter, 2 ozs. ; Tea, J oz., or Coffee, 2 ozs. ; Sugar,
3 ozs. ; Chocolate, | oz. ; Potatoes, 12 ozs. ; Condensed Milk (unsweetened),
2 ozs., or Fresh Milk, g pint; Fresh Vegetables, -J- lb. (see
note (i) ; Fresh Meat, 9 to 12 ozs. (see note (ii) ).
Note.—(i) Fresh Vegetables to consist of one of the following :~—
Cabbage, Carrots, Onions, Parsnips, Swedes.
(ii) Fresh Meat to consist of :—Carcass Beef, 12 ozs. ; Corned Beef,
12 ozs. ; Mutton, Carcass, 12 ozs. ; Mutton, Chops, 12 ozs. ; Rolled Ribs,
9 ozs. ; Topside or Thick Flank, 9 ozs. ; Veal, 12 ozs.
If satisfactory arrangement for supply can be made, the daily
meat ration may be made up of one-half of any two of the foregoing
quantities.
Substitutes when fresh 'provisions are not available :—
In lieu of Bread—Biscuit, 8 ozs., or Flour, 12 ozs.
In lieu of Fresh Meat—Preserved Meat, 8 ozs.
In lieu of Potatoes—Rice, 3 ozs., or Flour, 5 ozs.
In lieu of Fresh Vegetables—Dried Peas or Haricot Beans, 3 ozs.
2. Any additional quantities of the above articles, and also any other
provisions required by messes, are to be issued on repayment, and charged
against a Messing Allowance of 9d. per head per diem, which will come into
operation with the Revised Standard Ration.
3. All provisions for which there is a fixed issuing price will be issued on
repayment to messes at the established price, and in the case of articles stocked
for which no fixed issuing price applies, the cost price is to be charged, or as
otherwise may be approved from time to time for Ships in General Mess.
4. Accountant Officers of Parent Ships are to arrange that, as far as possible,
stocks of various provisions are maintained in Tenders to provide a
reasonable variety for issue on repayment, but special steps should be taken