NEWS FOR SMOKERS

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 31, 6 August 1945, Page 6

NEWS FOR SMOKERS

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Here's news! There is likely to be an improvement shortly in tobacco and cigarette supplies, according to an authoritative source.

Factory labour has been the bugbear operating against generous supplies for some time. In the half-monthly distributions retailers have sometimes received a good proportion of cigarettes and cigarette tobacco and at other times pipe tobacco has been in better ratio. There has been noticeable fluctuation, therefore, in the availability of particular kinds of smokers' requisites, although the overall quantity has remained fairly steady.. Sales •on the present basis are a bit hard on visitors to Wellington. Seeing this appears to be the open season for conferences of delegates to all sorts of annual meetings, there have been a lot' of disappointments. But it is left to the tobacconist's discretion to spread his stocks as fairly as possible. , One tobacconist said that he recently put a line of cigarettes on the shelves. The public spotted it quickly enough, and in a matter of minutes the shelf was sold out to the mieue that formed —and the tobacconist has not repeated the experiment. With all the shortage, however, New Zealand smokers have come out of it infinitely better than Australians.