CANADA’S PART

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 April 1942, Page 4

CANADA’S PART

CONTRIBUTION TO WAR EFFORT. RATIONS AND RESTRICTIONS. Under the impact of war restrictions gadgets, frills and luxuries are rapidly disappearing in Canada. Sugar is already rationed. Petrol, of which the sale has been curtailed for some months, is to be rationed from April 1. Except for essential war work new tyres are unobtainable. All scrap rubber has been taken over by Government agency. About 90 per cent of available steel is used directly for war purposes. The remaining 10 per cent is limited to priority articles. Tinplate containers for a wide range of food containers are banned. Fashion will have to bow to necessity. There are to be no two pair trouser suits, no double-breasted suit coats or dou-ble-breasted vests and no extra full trousers with cuffs. Even the length of women’s skirts is to be regulated. Canada is sending the entire 1942 pack of salmon and herring to Britain. ‘When present stocks are exhausted salmon and herring will disappear from Canadian distributors’ shelves. Plans are now being studied for the mobilisation of Canadian manpower to meet the growing needs of war industry and agriculture. Unemployment insurance organisation machinery will be employed. There are about 2,500,000 people now under the Unemployment Insurance Plan. With the recent extension of its functions probably another million will be added.