BRITAIN RATIONED

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 193, 16 August 1941, Page 4

BRITAIN RATIONED

EXPORT WORTH £165^

I Before the war the c *&,„,„, Britain were « rate of 0.350,000,000 a v tte . they face a pin famine.".'- "/ °* I For the pin manuiactuitr. ■ limited supplies of ** and increased demadds Government for sueK.Su^ 0 moms as the Stationery. qjsX? b «- administrative departngflß* & I to push its exports "n.aasaiso < In 1940 Eve. used to wasHn««v had to curb her e*rogg»§ keep herseh together 2.500 million of them. Tl/iS iis a real pin famine. -™ i \\ hile Adam is finding tahk«» sternation that razor bklyr oo3, : thick as leaves in YaUatfflSrjsa ollß .almost as rare as searching m vain for what avL ago. was handed across the «n£r to her in place of the draleß thing—a packet of pins.. T^ The value of this trade to Brihis considerable. In 19*5' S2? j blitz conditions, the-rnakers iSS £165,000 worth of tM^^jg 61