TEA RATIONING

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21247, 18 October 1940, Page 2

TEA RATIONING

ALLOWANCE OF 2oz A HEAD An official of the Ministry of Food, discussing the tea ration, said that, including all the tea made it home, in restaurants, offices, joci ry and works canteens, and m small oifice tea clubs, the average consumption of tea a head of Britain’s population was 2.9 ounces a week, says the Manchester Guardian. The ration has been fixed at 2 oz a head, leaving the 0.90 z to meet the requirements of caterers and other agencies. “We are trying to cover all the channels down which tea goes,” he said, thinking sympathetically of the thousands of thirsty throats. He recognised that rationing was easier where a number of people were concerned than for a solitary individual, and said that in a boarding-house containing twenty people the supply of tea could be generous beyond words without exceeding the ration. The object of tea rationing is not so much to economise its use as to prevent people who can afford it from buying more than they ought to be getting at present. Probably in the course of the next few months the Ministry will be able to review the situation in favour of the consumer.