FOOD GRABBERS " WARNED
C-VrTAIxV BATHUUSrS LETTER .TO A WOMAN.
\ Tottenham woman, refused by her c-rocer moro than Jib. of sugar per head of her household, wrote threateningr to withdraw her custom. He sent on the i , letter to Captain Bathurst, who, ia ten, sent the woman a message. • "I can only describe your letter, • wrote Captain Bnthurst, "as a most selfish and unpatriotic threat. I desire on. behalf of the Food Controller to warn vou that if you are obtaining any more* thnn your fair quota of sugar (supplies of which are exceedingly scaree) not only will you be deprived of the whole of your sugar supply from whatever source it may be obtained, but if necessary severe penalties will be imposed upon you as a meaus of warning others with similar selfish inclinations against like practices. It is owing to the attitude of people like yourself that a large number of very poor persons are wholly unable toi obtain any supply of sugar at all."
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3096, 29 May 1917, Page 6
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166FOOD GRABBERS " WARNED Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3096, 29 May 1917, Page 6
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