TOBACCO SUPPLIES
THE HOUDAY, QUOTA FACTORIESIcEPT BUSY (P.r.) WELLINGTON, Dec. 8. An assurance, that every effort was being made by the manufacturers to see that adequate supplies of tobacco and cigarettes would be available during the holiday period, despite the shortage of man-power, which was limiting production, was given in the House of Representatives yesterday i.y the acting Minister of Supply, the Hon. W. Nash. He was replying to an urgent question by Mr, F. W. Doidge (Opp., Tauranga), who had asked why cigarettes and tobacco were always obtainable at railway refreshment rooms while legitimate tobacconists were frequently short of supplies. The Minister said he had been advised that no preference was extended to railway refreshment rooms. All me retailers throughout..the Domin.i,n were being supplied proportionately on tlie basis of sales prior to the period of the shortage. The manulauurc of ivory-tipped cigarettes had ceased three months ago, clue to material shortages. Stocks of those cigarettes were rapidly disappearing.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21582, 8 December 1944, Page 8
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159TOBACCO SUPPLIES Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21582, 8 December 1944, Page 8
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