SILK STOCKINGS
RATIONING SYSTEM STUDY BY CABINET (Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. Suggestions that some rationing method be adopted so that the limited supply of women’s stockings will be more fairly distributed, were brought to the attention of the acting-Prime Minister, the Hon. W. Nash, to-day. Mr. Nas(i replied that the matter of securing some more fair and equitable way for everyone to have reasonable access to the existing stocks in under the Government’s' consideration. “Every week,” he added, “60,000 dozen pairs of silk stockings made in New Zealand are delivered to traders. Arrangements are under way to enable a further 50,000 dozen '’pairs to be manufactured in the Dominion annually.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20631, 12 August 1941, Page 9
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111SILK STOCKINGS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20631, 12 August 1941, Page 9
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