SUPPLIES OF SUGAR
NO RATIONING BY GOVERNMENT. SUFFICIENT FOR SIX MONTHS. THE POSITION OF FARMERS. (Per Press Association). DUNEDIN, This Day. In a statement to-day on complaints of the inability of the farming community to purchase sugar in bulk, the Minister of Supply (the Hon. D. G. Sullivan) stated that there was no shortage and the Government had not rationed the commodity. Once hostilities had commenced Britain commandeered all Empire-grown sugar and Russia was a heavy buyer of foreign stocks, this causing a hardening of prices. New Zealand had stocks to meet the normal demand for at least six months and it was panic-buying because of an imagined shortage that led to merchants themselves rationing supplies. If people -would bo content to purchase normally, farmers would have no difficulty in obtaining their requirements.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 28, 13 November 1939, Page 6
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