Scarcities
Sir,—About 10 days ago I went to four leading household stores, and failed to get a butter cooler. Such an absurdity, is measured by an experience I had in Dunedin 10 years ago, when I could not get a fly-paper anywhere in the city area, and subsequently was obliged to pay a three-section bus fare to Maori Hill just to get flypapers. Two or three months later I had a positive route march round Dunedin before I could get a very ordinary rubber gas join. Why on earth can’t grocers get rock salt for people’s gardens? It has a multitude of domestic and medicinal purposes. Such things as these are a plague upon one’s common sense.— Yours, etc., R. M. THOMSON. November 16, 1961.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29673, 17 November 1961, Page 3
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