SUGAR ORDER REFUSED

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29264, 23 July 1960, Page 12

SUGAR ORDER REFUSED

Butcher-Grocers In Feilding '■

;New Zealand Press Association/ PALMERSTON NTH, July 22 The first counter-attack in the Feilding butcher-grocer war was launched today when merchants refused to supply sugar to Messrs E. M. Deslandes and K. Woods, the butchers who have turned grocers. Until today neither butcher had experienced any difficulty in obtaining supplies of groceries from the undisclosed source.

However, today, Mr Deslandes was denied further supplies of 701 b bags of Sugar, a commodity that was meeting a ready demand from the bargain-seeking customer.

Mr Deslandes tried to obtain bags of sugar from three different sources but in each instance he was unsuccessful.

“They are starting to get at me, but so long as I can obtain a supply of even one article I shall continue selling cost price groceries to the publis,” he said. Mr Deslandes said he had sold 79 bags of sugar and 52 boxes of tea this week.

“If that is not Interfering with someone’s turnover I will be surprised,” he said.

Both Mr Deslandes and Mr Woods remained open this evening till 9 o’clock to sell groceries. One Feilding grocery store manager, asked to s. comment said: “Jolly good luck to them. They should start selling coal, too.” Mr Deslandes said if coal was a little cleaner, he would certainly sell it as well, if the grocer started.