No End to Butter Rationing In Sight
NAPIER, Feb. 8. The time is uot yet opportuue to inerease tlie butter ratio'n or abolish rationing altogefher, saitl tlie Minister of industries aiid Commerce, Mr. Nordmeyer, when addressing the New Zeaiand master .groccrs' coiiference at Napier tliis afternoou. Mr. Nordmeyer said iucreasiug s.upplies from .foreign coiuitries and New Zeaiand might soon re'ftiil t in an improvement in the supply in Britaiu aiui->4he New Zeaiand Goverrimeut would increase tlie ration a.s soou as it coul'd be dqne without projudicing the three-ounce weekly ration in Britain. " We know the aliolition of rationing will be welco'rued as much by the grocers as bv the public and it will be welcoiued just as mucli by the Govemineut." said the Minister. "There are 110 vot'es in rationing." A suggestion that more butter was lving in cool stores in Wellington thai: could be skipped overseas in eight months, was uot giveu credit by the Minister wlio said, however, tliat he would investigate ou his return to Wellington and advise the confereuce before it conclnded.
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Chronicle (Levin), 9 February 1949, Page 2
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