PRACTICE DEFENDED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 October 1941, Page 4

PRACTICE DEFENDED

REFUSAL OF GOODS IN SHORT SUPPLY POSITION OF WELLINGTON GROCERS. OPPOSITION TO ATTEMPTED HOARDING. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Though saying he was not aware of there being any such general custom among grocers, Mr J. A. Kellow, Secretary of the Wellington Grocers’ Association, gave some grounds for justifying the practice, in some shops, of refusing to supply certain lines in which there was a short supply unless other goods to the value of 10s worth or more were purchased at the same time. Instead of co-operating in the efforts to conserve short supply goods, some people set out to build up a supply, i.e., to hoard such goods, and to obtain them, went the rounds of the shops. Mr Kellow explained that in the suburbs there was not much trouble, as shopkeepers there knew their customers, but the position in the city shops was different. He added that if specific cases were given of shops refusing to sell execst under conditions such as he had me» tioned, he would be pleased to institute inquiries.