DEMAND INCREASES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 89, 16 April 1942, Page 6

DEMAND INCREASES

ISSUE OF RATION BOOKS

Householders and others wanting to ensure their future supply of sugar have staged their own version of a spring offensive on harassed officials whose task it is to issue the ration books. The attack opened last Monday with heavy enough bombardment, but since then the onslaught has progressively assumed : the proportions of a full-scale assault. The difficulty seems to have been that too many persons did not spring soon enough. Reports from suburban post offices indicate that each evening has brought an increased demand, and it is expected that tomorrow night the peak will be reached. : The large staff at the daytime issuing depot in the State Fire Office has been working under pressure, and has been doing so very efficiently. There was a big mid-morning rush today, and applicants increased with a bound with the first of the lunchers after noon. A few minutes before 2 o'clock there were ten queues at the counters, and facilities for filling in the forms were in full use; but still a steady stream, persistently reinforced, came up the steps. It was a tribute to the organisation that there was little halt in the flow. Post and money-order offices, which have been open from 7 p.m. tc 9 p.m. each evening this week for the issue of books, will be open for that period for the last time tomorrow.