RATIONING.

Evening Star, Issue 24919, 17 July 1943, Page 8

RATIONING.

TO TH& EDITOR. Sir,—l have read with interest a number of letters on butter rationing. Perhaps these people put it under the same heading as the sugar rationing, which is most unfair. Thousands of women to-day whose husbands brother?, and families are away and overseas are left to carry on alone in the household. These women still have their social obligations, such as contributions to the Red Cross,!' gifts' to 'soldiers, etc., which take sugar, and yet they can only draw 3!b a month, the 6ame as a baby from the day it is born. There are some, families with very young children who are drawing up to 201 b and even more a month. They can make as much marmalade as they want, whereas, the women T speak of have no .'sugar' to use for anything more than bare necessities. We even did not get a marmalade ration this season, and yet the shops are full of oranges. I was in England during the war, and we' got Jib butter a week, but the margarine was so good you would not know the difference; in fact, people took it. in preference, as it was only half the price. l am not, advocating non-rationing of butter, but would like to see ,a fairer p.rdpor-," tion dealt out in certain circumstances. — I am, etc., ' , Justice. ' July 16. ".".'' ;'. ".