POCKET-SIZED
STYLE OF RATION BOOKS VARIETY OF COLOURS (0.C.) WELLINGTON, this day. The ration books which all New Zealanders will shortly use are pocket-sized, paper-covered books, freen for males and children under 6, yellow for women. Each bears a serial number, and must be signed for. Inside are several pages of different colours, each page being divided into 26 squares carrying Nos. 1 to 26. To obtain a rationed commodity, the purchaser will present* a ration book to the retailer, who will cut off one of the numbered squares, which are less than the size of a postage stamp. No particular commodity Is indicated in the books, and the system Is designed on elastic lines to cover any article which may require to be rationed. There are sufficient numbers to enable the books to be In use for a considerable time. New Zealanders will soon become accustomed to regard, say, a pink ticket, number so-and-so, as a passport to a weekly ration of some necessary commodity.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 83, 9 April 1942, Page 8
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