Although most Auckland shopkeepers still have some supplies of safety matches, which w ere purchased some time ago, stocks held by wholesale merchants are now practically exhausted. Orders are being rationed to very small quantities. One • development of the shortage is that firms are now instructing their travellers to press the sale of wax matches.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 276, 4 September 1939, Page 6
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