SWEETS RATIONING TO END IN BRITAIN
LONDON. February 21. The Minister of Food (Mr John Strachey) announced in the House of Commons that sweets rationing would end on April 24. Mr Strachey said that in the three years ended December 31. 1948, 54,000 tons of gift food had been received from the Commonwealth and colonies for distribution to people most in need. Since 1939 more than 50,000,000 gift food parcels had come direct to individuals through the post from the Commonwealth and the colonies. He added that 4570 501 b tins of cooking fat had been received under the Commonwealth gift food scheme from the National Patriotic Fund of New Zealand.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25736, 23 February 1949, Page 5
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