FOOD HOARDERS

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 September 1939, Page 5

FOOD HOARDERS

RESTRICTIONS AT CHRISTCHURCH [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] £ 1: X » 1 • f CHRISTCHURCp, September 7. Food hoarder;), who haye been buying groceries well'iri excess'of' their normal requirements, have' led city grocers to adopt ' protective restrictions. In future, they will sell only 41b. of sugar, lib. of tea, and 71b. of flour at a time. To avoid multiple purchases, at different shops, many stores will serve ’ only their regular customers. To counter requests for 251 b. or 501 b. bags of flour, they will, in future, buy in 2001 b. sacks and repack in 71b. containers. 1 ’ > Not only for other customers, but for the grocers themselves Is the position made difficult by excess purchases., Under the Control Regulations; shops are only allowed to purchase wholesale their normal requirements and the rush has seriously depleted current stocks.' . : One city grocer told a reporter, t]ns morning, that-his this‘week, had been about double* normal. Th& main requirements by some customers were sugar, tea and flour, and big orders were being put in for tinned fish and fruits. Shop attendants, who attempted to restrain customers, Were bullied into accepting their orders, he declared. He pointed out that hoarding was both unnnecessary and unfair to other customers, who bought normally, and the trade was forced’ to make restrictions;