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LITTLE STARCH AVAILABLE CORNFLOUR AS SUBSTITUTE One of the commodities at present practically unprocurable in Thames is starch. One of the reasons for this, stated a grocer, was that as starch was made from rice, which is a food, most firms had stopped making il. Many housewives have been reduced to using cornflour as a substitute, as this seems to serve the purpose. However, housewives need not worry about .always having to use cornflour as a substitute in the future. Another grocer stated that, starch would soon be manufactured from maize.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 53, Issue 32415, 3 April 1944, Page 3
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94IN SHORT SUPPLY Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 53, Issue 32415, 3 April 1944, Page 3
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