MATCHES BY HALF-BOX
SALES MADE IN AUCKLAND RETAILED AT HALF-PENNY Rather than continue to refuse regular customers, some Auckland sub-r urban tobacconists, it is reported, have adopted the expedient of cutting boxes of wooden matches in half, papering up the exposed sides, and dividing the contents into equal parts. The small, boxes are being retail-* ed at a half-penny each. A test made showed that a number of boxes contained from 43 to 49 matches, so that the halfboxes should average 22 matches. One tobacconist declared that with a £20 tobacco order he had received as his quota only three packets of matches.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 42, 26 January 1943, Page 4
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103MATCHES BY HALF-BOX Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 42, 26 January 1943, Page 4
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