SUGAR RESTRICTION CARDS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 61, 5 December 1917, Page 3

SUGAR RESTRICTION CARDS

ENFORCED DENIAL. Some idea of what people in Britain are enduring in the way of sugar restrictions may be gathered from the following directions printed in- "The Queen," as to how sugar cards should be filled in. We are told that when any members of a family go away on a visit !they will have to take their ration of sugar with them or have it forwarded weekly; they cannot draw any locally, and naturally the hostess cannot be expected to supply them out of her household allowance.

A correspondent who had no fixed address, but moved about with her husband every two or_ three months, and who asked for advice as to what was her best course, was told that "she should resistor from her present address with a grocer, and have her ration posted to her when she changed her address." Continuing, the writer (Sirs. Peel) says that domestic servants or workers coming in for the day must not be returned; they must fill in theii own forms from their homes; and ii provided with meals at their place oi employment, special arrangements musi be made between themselves and theii employer. They will probably arrang6 to bring with them an agreed proportion of their ration, for which the employer will pay. Tin's applies to eases whore the worker has a home, but where a servant is sleeping out in a :oom paid for by her employer then she must be returned as a member of the household.' The form certainly says "ordimrily resident in the household," but h is evident that she only sleeps out because there is no accommodation in the residence, and therefore she must be returned, otherwise she would not le able to obtain her ration. Where the maid herself pays for her room she must claim her sugar for herself.

Children at school should be returned in the form, but no sugar must be ordered for them except during the holidays. Special arrangements arc provided under the order to deal with schools and institutions.

As the redistribution of sugar supplies cannot b<* finally completed before* December 30 it was possible that during the intermediate period some retailers might not have sufficient sugai tn supply all their registered customers with their pronor allowance. Endoavoui would he made +o meet cases of hardship bv local adjustment, and in any case of doubt information coi'W be obtained from the local Food Contra* office. N