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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 58, 20 March 1945, Page 7

Groceries Price List The Prices Commission is issuing to 33,000 grocers, in New South Wales alone an 88-page book 13in. by Bin. ( containing the fixed prices of 80,000 grocery lines, reports a Sydney correspondent. The cost of printing and posting the book lias not. been announced but grocers are being charged 6d for it. They are required to display the book in their shop in a place where it can easily lie consulted by customers.

500 Miles of Cigarettes Nearly gift cigarettes for .servicemen were provided from patriotic funds last year ( said the Mayor of Wellington, Mr Appleton, in an appeal for the 194-) Wellington provincial quota of £73,000, These cigarettes wouUl make a chain over 500 miles in length. More than gift parcels -were, sent overseas during the last 12 months. Apart from sporting all kinds of things are asked for by the servicemen. Scot.s would he interested to know that two bagpipes and 12 bagpipe, bags were dispatched. Major L. Lovelock the weli-known cithlete in acknowledging a parcel recently; had stated that "those of us overseas most deeply feel such recognition from the folk at home 5 and this is all the more felt by those of us temporarily divorced from the majority of our fellowcountrymen."