TOBACCO FAMINE
SHORTAGE OF "MILLIONS OF CIGARETTES. Tobacco supplies in (ho London shops are authoritatively said to be worse today (says tho "Daily News" of June 10) than at any period during tho war, especially the supply of popular brands of cigarettes. Tho expectation early in the year, that there would have been ample supplies by now, has not been realised, Biivs "Tobacco," the trade journal. Tobacco has been arriving at the ports in largo quantities, although its delivery to manufactories has taken an interminable time. Labour has been in better supply. Machinery las been tho weak link, but some few additional cigarette machines havo beeu secured here and there. This driblet does not, however, replace the machines incapacitated moro or less by the excessive strain of running night and day on war work. The number of machines arriving is insufficient to relieve the congestion, and any great-improvement in delivery cannot be expected during tho next three or four months. Manufacturers are from two to ten million cigarettes a week behind in their orders, and tobacconists have to face a prospect of continued short supplies duriiiE the summer months nt any rate.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 260, 30 July 1919, Page 7
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192TOBACCO FAMINE Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 260, 30 July 1919, Page 7
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