FOOD RATIONING
EXPECTED IN GREAT BRITAIN AT END OF MONTH
SUPPLIES OF MARGARINE TO BE INCREASED.
MAXIMUM RETAIL PRICES FIXED
By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.50 p.m.) LONDON, October 5.
Food rationing is expected at the end of the month, involving butter, margarine, cooking fats, sugar, meat, bacon and hams. Supplies of margarine will be increased in view of the diminution of butter from Scandinavia. Tea is not being rationed at first. The maximum retail fixed food prices are as follows: —Butter, Is 7d lb.; eggs, Dominion or home-produced and cold stored, Is 6d large (not less 22‘oz. per dozen), Is 3d small (not less 17ioz. per dozen); sugar, granulated, 4Jd a lb.; cubes, sd; castor, sd; piece, 41-d; soft brown, 44d; demprara, 4.]d; ’preserving. 4fjd; icing, 5Jd, and Barbados, 5.1 d.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1939, Page 6
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134FOOD RATIONING Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1939, Page 6
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