CLOTHES RATIONING
TERMINATION IMPOSSIBLE POSITION IN AUSTRALIA Rec. 8 p.m. MELBOURNE. Dec. 2. It had been hoped to terminate clothes rationing in Australia, but the acute position caused by the dollar crisis had made this impossible,” said the Minister of Trade and Customs. Senator B. Courtice. The United Kingdom and India were not in a position to supply Australia with more than a fraction of essential cotton needs. Exports of cloth to New Zealand represented merely token shipments aimed at expanded trade when conditions became normal.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26634, 3 December 1947, Page 5
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86CLOTHES RATIONING Otago Daily Times, Issue 26634, 3 December 1947, Page 5
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