SUGAR AND TEA
STATEMENT BY THE MINISTER.
GROCERS TAKE EXCEPTION. RATIOINING BY WHOLESALERS. (Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, This Day. The statement of the Minister for Supply (the Son. ID. G. Sullivan) issued recently in connection with stocks of sugar and tea have been referred to the Wellington Master Grocers’ Association, which is emphatic that the Minister’s statement is misleading to the public. At the commencement of the -war grocers were requested to eo-operate .with the Government in the difficult, period by keeping a check on hoarding by limiting supplies to the normal requirements of customers,,, The trade was happy to co-operate laind has done' everything within ,its power to assist the Government, aiid serious exception is taken to the statement of the Minister that Supplies' have not been rationed, either by wholesalers or the retailers. •
The grocers Atfiffe., definitely that they were unable to voLtain from wholesalers even their normal requirements of certain lines and in particular did this apply to sugar and ;teia. Consequently they were compelled to limit the. amounts of these commodities which they supply to customers. All grocers in Wellington regret the inconvenience caused to customers by this limiting of supplies and wish to make it quite clear that they are in no way responsible for the shortage. The resolution passed by Auckland Master Grocers yesterday in reply to the Minister’s statement has the) full support of the Wellington Association. LOW STOCK OF GROCERIES. CONDITIONS IN DUNEDIN. DUNEDIN, This Day. Judging by the present trend of events reductions in staff in wholesale and jreta.il business after the holidays are regarded as a foregone conclusion. One merchant stated that conditions reported from the North were no different from those prevailing in Dunedin, Stocks of groceries are low and •where licences hiaye been received for fur they supplies they are only for a small percentage* of the actual requirements.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 35, 21 November 1939, Page 6
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