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CONDITIONS AND EXCEPTIONS IN APPLYING SCALE.
1. The issue of provisions for which a total weekly, and no daily, amount
is given in the above scale, shall be reasonably distributed throughout the
week.
2. The issue of soft bread under the scale shall not be required:—
(a) in a ship of less than one thousand tons gross registered
tonnage; or
(b) if rough weather renders the making of the bread impracticable;
or
(c) in any ship until the date of the first agreement with the crew
entered into after the first day of January, nineteen hundred and eight ;
but where soft bread is not issued, an equivalent amount of biscuit shall
be issued instead.
3. An equal quantity of fish, up to an amount not exceeding threequarters
of a pound, in any one week, may be substituted for preserved meat
under the above scale.
The fish issued, whether under the scale or as a substitute, must be fresh
fish, dried fish, or canned salmon or canned herrings.
4. Within the tropics, a pound and a half of preserved meat, or three
pounds of fresh meat, may be substituted for two pounds of salt pork.
5. Fresh potatoes must be issued for at least the first eight weeks of the
voyage in the case of every ship leaving a port within the home-trade limits
at any time between the last day of September and the first day of May, and
at any other time when they can be procured at a reasonable cost.
When fresh potatoes are not so issued, an equal amount of yams, or vegetables
preserved in tins, or an equivalent amount of dried or compressed
potatoes or dried or compressed vegetables in the proportion of one pound to
six pounds of fresh potatoes, must be issued in their place.
6. Fresh vegetables, or vegetables preserved in tins, may at any time be
substituted for dried or compressed vegetables in the proportion of half-apound
of fresh vegetables, or vegetables preserved in tins, to one ounce of
dried or compressed vegetables.
7. A mixture of coffee and chicory, containing not less than seventy-five
per cent. of coffee, may at any time be substituted for coffee in the proportion
of five ounces of the mixture to four ounces of coffee.
8. The dried fruit issued under the above scale must be raisins, sultanas,
currants, figs or prunes.