SOVIET RATIONING.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 258, 31 October 1928, Page 7

SOVIET RATIONING.

Enormous Queues Await Daily

Bread Supply.

FUEL FAMINE TOO.

("Times" Cables.) (Received 0 a.m.)

LONDON, October 30.

The Riga correspondent of the " Times" reports that the Soviet Trade Commissariat has introduced a further rationing of food and other necessaries.

They said that if the members of the co-operative societies continued to receive the present rations non-members could get nothing.

Therefore they ordered the co-opera-tive societies to supply non-members with a portion of the rations, but less per head than the co-operative members received.

The Commissariat convened a special conference to discuss how to keep up the bread supplies and reduce the queues, on the ground that a large projection of the workers were obliged to way in queues after their work and often got nothing, because the early comers got everything.

The conference decided to distribute imported rice, groats and beans, to eke out the bread. Simultaneously the fuel famine is becoming acute. According to the "Izvestia" the queues are enormous. The ration will be five cubic metres of firewood a week.

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(Australian and N.Z. Press Association.)

(Received 9 a.m.) PRAGUE, October 30. In the interests of public safety the Government has suspended the Communist daily paper "Rude Pravo" for one month.