EGG RATION
Temporary Reduction This Week OVERSEAS DEMAND "Retailers of eggs have been on a 50 per cent, ration for some time now,” said the Acting Director of Internal Marketing, Mr. It. I*. Eraser, yesterday, "and supplies coming to hand from country districts and from the south have made it possible to maintain this figure over a period. “This week, however, a very heavy increase in demand bus taken place for overseas requirements, and it is likely that the ration will be reduced for this week to 25 ]>er cent, of normal. Dunedin, Christchurch and Hawke's Bay are contributing a very big proportion of these external suitplies. “I feel sure that the public appreciates the need for supplying the priority demands which unfortunately cannot always lie l.nowti In advance, tint the division is gradually building up a reserve of supplies Io meet these sudden calls and I bus enable, as far as possible, a constant, ration (0 be mainI tallied.” ...
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 17, 15 October 1942, Page 6
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160EGG RATION Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 17, 15 October 1942, Page 6
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