TRADERS WARNED
Rationing System Will Be
Enforced
Rationing regulations will be enforced even if the Government has to devise some scheme for stricter supervision, said the Rationing Controller, Mr. J. E. Thomas, addressing drapers and allied traders in Gisborne recently. The majority of the retailers were to be congratulated, said Mr. Thomas, on the mariner in which they had done their best to comply with the regulations, but to the few who had failed in their observance he said that abuses would be severely dealt with. The maximum penalty at present was a line of £lOO or three months’ imprisonment for a oreach of the regulations, but the Government was prepared to make this penalty more severe if the traders failed to observe the regulations. Mr. Thomas added that Hie regulations concerning the rationing scheme were just as important to the country areas as to the cities. He fully realized that in some instances certain anomalies would affect country districts and not the cities, and vice versa.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 250, 21 July 1942, Page 4
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167TRADERS WARNED Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 250, 21 July 1942, Page 4
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