[ When Professor C. 13. Ross left Tokio for Australia recently ho was | presented with a handful of'nails as a j farewell gift. He considered it a ‘•handsome'’ gift because nails were nlI most unobtainable in Japan. .He had | no nails to hammer down his eases, and his Japanese friend;; rallied round, some giving one rusty nail, others two or three. Professor Ross, who was professor of English at Mito High ' near Tokio, said foodstuffs in Japan were severely rationed. The rice ration was not enough to keep a hard-working man in good health. Sugar, all types of beans, leather, and petrol were scarce. Potatoes wore al- I most unobtainable because they were I ■ used in making power alcohol.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 May 1941, Page 6
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