TOBACCO SHORTAGE
R.S.A. SUGGESTION
P.A. INVERCARGILL, This Day. The executive of the Invercargill R.S.A., at a meeting last night, passed the following resolution: "In view of the present unfair distribution of tobacco and cigarettes in New Zealand as it affects recently-discharged servicemen, this executive strongly recommends to the Ministers of Supply and Defence that such men be guaranteed a weekly ration of .tobacco and/or cigarettes for at least six months after discharge, on a plan similar to that which has been in, operation in Australia for some years for Australian discharged servicemen." Members deplored the treatment being given to servicemen who, by reason of the time of their return to New Zealand, were barred from the lists of storekeepers and tobacconists. The chairman (Mr. W. Bell), commented: "If girls of 17. would stop smoking there would be plenty of tobacco for soldiers. It is girls of that age who are causing the shortage."
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 148, 20 December 1945, Page 11
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153TOBACCO SHORTAGE Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 148, 20 December 1945, Page 11
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