SAVING OF FOOD COUPONS

Chronicle (Levin), 18 April 1946, Page 3

SAVING OF FOOD COUPONS

—Press Association

TOO MANY STILL ARGUING '■

By Telearavh-

WELLINGTON, April 1 7/ . A total of SS33 butter coupons and 209,914 meat coupons wa-s surfendored during the week ended Alonday; as part of New Zealand 's campaign to provido more food for Britain by the voluhtary contributioa of coupous for rhtiorietl cominodities. These iigures are for; the. 20 maia postal dlstricts. Wheu returns for tho smaller areas coine in, . the present totals should be inereased b.y several tnousands. ; ; As each butter coupou has a value of eight ouncos, the weck's saviugs so' i'ar recorded roproscut 4410J pouuds or nearly two tous of extra butter.' for export to Britaiu. As the British 'butter rutiou is Ihree ouuces a week, this quautity represouls a week's butter for between 23,000 aud 24,000 people. : - The positiun iu regpi'd "to mouLis not so easy to deline becuuse ipriec cutefs iuto Lho questiou. The i'ace value of each coupou is Lhreopeueo- aud iu Englaud thc meat ration for carcase meat is Is. . * i . • - The wiuuiug district on a . pro-rata basis, vv us iiaiuiltou, wilh Blenheim aud ' Wanganui breakiug ubo'ut vCvexi i'or. second pjacc. Wanganui. 's; coutributiogi iu surreiidcring 1014 butter coupous was outslanding. Christchurch inado' the best shovviug of the eities. Betailcd' returus for :the ; various postal districls are:-^-

The chairman of the Famine Emergencv (Jommittee, Mi. T. N. Buiallwood, said tonight that the results wero butter. lliaii anticipated cousideriug tJiat cards had beou distributcd iu soino districls only a few days ago and that iu sonie areas the campaign had uot beeu operating aud that publicity for the campaign would uot be iu'fuli swing lill the eud of the week. The campaign was also ha.mpered by so many people stopping to argue instead of coutributiug. ILc was coniident from uow ou, tlie Iigures would talce a sharp leap upward because of a bottor knowledge of Ihe campaign. ILe felt gratiiicd with the results.

Butter Meat • coupons coupons Auckland 1,237 29,075 Blenheim ' 480 10,4(30 ' Ohristchurch .... ■ 1,400 33,0(31 Duuedin-:' 745 13,041 G is bo rne : 70 1,030 Grcvnjouth .... 48 3,421 Hamilton 538 17,094 Invereargill .... 492 4,9S0 Alastertun 472 • 9,974 Nupier 248 5,820 Neison iu3 13,694 New Plymouth .. 257 14,854 Oamaru 8 932 1'aimerston JN'orth ' 002 : 10,778 ■ Thames * .. ,. .. (78 3,571 Txmaru 153 5,937 , Wanganui 1,014 • 9,680 Wellington .. .. 774 .20,750 Westporl 5 248 W hangarei .... • 104 414