SWEDEN AND N.Z.
COMPARISON MADS FOOD RATIONING SEVERE Like New Zealand, Sweden has maintained its wartime restrictions on food, but unlike this country, clothes rationing has been lifted and there are no electricity cuts. The captain of the Swedish motor-vessel Mirrabooka, of Gothenburg, Captain A. T. Ekman, told the above to a Wellington Press reporter. Clothes rationing in Sweden has been removed for more than a year, said Captain Ekman. At the time that the restrictions were lifted there had been plenty of reserve, stocks of clothing, but these stocks were lessening. Supplies were still plentiful. Norwegians, Danes and Finns were crossing into Sweden to get clothing, which was still very scarce in their countries.
The food rationing, which had been introduced in 1940 was still very severe. There were restrictions on such essential foods as meat and butter and also on bread and all cereals. The butter ration was about Jib a week. The country was short of fuel at present. Only a little brown coal was available to the public. All other coal and coke had to be imported. The shortage of petrol, though rationing had been lifted, was demonstrated by the number of gas-pro-ducer cars still on the roads.
Prices in Sweden, said Captain Ekman, were much as they had been during the war. Some articles, such as clothing, were still controlled. Electrical troubles in Sweden were' few. Most of the country’s industry ran on electricity and most of the main railways had been electrified. Hydro-electricity schemes were still being expanded. The governing party in Sweden was the Social-Democrats. They were similar to New Zealand Labour Party, and had been in power longer. Captain Ekman is proud of neutral Sweden’s attitude during the war. He told of an instance in 1940 when the Allies thought to aid Finland against Russia by sending troops there through northern Sweden. Sweden had refused permission, he said, and had almost certainly prevented a Russian-German coalition.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 49, 4 July 1947, Page 3
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324SWEDEN AND N.Z. Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 49, 4 July 1947, Page 3
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