GROCERS FED UP WITH PINPRICKING
AUCKLAND, August 25. The New Zealand Master Grocers' Association clainrs that a crisis is eoniing with butter rationing. "The present coupon§ have steadily become roore dilapidated but the grocers are still expected to count them.. They are made of sucli flimsy paper that the least puJT of wind will disturb^them. One coupou in f our is invalid/but there is an amaziug number of' pebpfe uw)hb iviil °try 1 wtJo use them," says the federation's ohicial jourual. "Shortages are inevitabie but this apparently is nott-appreciat.ed by the ration offiee Iwhich continues to send out pinpricking letters and that a repitition of shortages will lead to a prosecution or a cancellation of the liceuce to trade in rationed goods." The journal points out that if a civil servant who wrote'the federation saying. he doubted if the system caused any serious problem, were to work behind a grocer's counter one day, he Would not be guilty of such 'arrant nonsense.' The grocers were not prepared to accept statements contrary to fact and actual practice. ,
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Chronicle (Levin), 26 August 1949, Page 6
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176GROCERS FED UP WITH PINPRICKING Chronicle (Levin), 26 August 1949, Page 6
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