Butter Rationing.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 May 1943, Page 2

Butter Rationing.

“The British Government has asked that butter should be rationed in New i Zealand and Australia so that the ration of 2oz a person can be maintained in Britain,” said the Minister of Agriculture and Marketing, Mr Barclay, when speaking at Maungatapere, states a report from Whangarei, published in the “New Zealand Herald.” “The request has come from Britain, and I think the people of New Zealand will be behind the Government if it accedes to the request.” Stocks of butter in store in the Dominion on May 1 totalled 34,000 tons, compared with 38,500 tons on the corresponding date last year, and the respective figures for cheese were 23,000 tons and 40,000 tons.

Moneylender Fined. Stated to be the first case of the kind in the district, if not in the Dominion, a moneylender, Samuel Dudley, was yesterday fined 10s and costs in the Magistrates’ Court, Gisborne, on each of six charges of accepting pensioner and social security benefit certificates as securities for loans. The police pointed out that the certificates bore an inscription that it was an offence for them to be held as security. For defendant, counsel said Dudley had acted in ignorance. The pension certificate did not constitute legal security and the certificates had been held for the convenience of the pensioners as well as himself, because if they had been mislaid payment would have been delayed.