PENALTY "IMPOSED

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 194, 18 August 1942, Page 6

PENALTY "IMPOSED

LOST COUPON BOOKS

CONTROLLER'S EXPLANATION'

(0.C.) \\ ELLINGTON, Monday. When it is necessary to supplv liesh clothing coupons to replace a ration book that has been lost, four coupons are deducted from the new book for each month of the rationing E,?riod up to the date of replacement This information was given by Mr. L K. Thomas, Food Controller, when a complaint from a correspondent was referred to him.

The correspondent said he had lost his ration book In August, and on obtaining a new one paid 1/ for it and forfeited eight coupons. "If I had not used any clothing coupons and had lost my book later, the controller would have, by November, left me with two out of the 26," added the correspondent, -but if I had used an average of four a month before losing the book, the controller would not have penalised me at all " Thomas said that it might seem I™ 1 1* u I so ' , but some sort of penalty had to be imposed when a coupon book was lost. In this particular case the owner had been penalised eight coupons, covering the two months from May 29, when the coupons first became operative Mr Thomas pointed out that if no penalty existed people could come along iust before the six months were up and claim they had lost their book, even although they had traded in all their coupons.