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IN AUSTRALIA TEA RATION. ACTION AGAINST HOARDERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) MELBOURNE, March 29. The Minister of Trade and Customs, Senator Keane, announced that from tomorrow tea will be rationed <io one ounce a, ? week for each person over the age of nine. All consumers, he said, would have to declare their stocks, and hoarders would receive no ration till tea held by them had been consumed at the ration rate. Each consumer must register with a tea retailer, and one person in each family would be responsible for the registration of the other members. The managing director of a big restaurant and catering firm in Sydney said this morning that afternoon tea would disappear from business life, and tea would be served only with meals. The average pre-war consumption ot tea in Australia was about two ounces a -week her head of the population.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 March 1942, Page 3
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146HEAVY CUT Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 March 1942, Page 3
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