NEW RATION BOOKS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21852, 24 October 1945, Page 3

NEW RATION BOOKS

REGISTRATION FOR BUTTER HOSIERY COUPON (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 24. The registration of consumers with retailers for their butter rations will bo required, as previously, with the new issue cf ration books, stated the food and rationing controller, Mr. A. J. Costello, to-day. Every new ration book must be registered with a retailer before any butter may be purchased on the now coupons, but the consumers are at liberty to choose any retailer for the next six months. The procedure is the same as last year. The butter registration counterfoil or the top of the first sheet in the new ration book is to be filled in and the book presented to the chosen retailer. The retailer will cut out the counterfoil, enter his name on the space provided inside the front cover of the book, and enter the boo 1 ; number and Ihe name of the holder in his butter register. The counterfoils are to be collected by the retailer and sent in to the local rationing office with a declaration of the number submitted and' entered on the register not later than November 12. The registration of priority egg consumers in areas where the priority system is operating will be conducted in the same manner, although the consumers need not register until the falling off of supplies later in the season should make it necessary. Food coupons become available from October 29, in accordance with the calendar on the back cover of the ration book, except in the case of butter, where every fourth coupon is cancelled until further notice. “Hosiery coupon X 104 will expire on October 31 and the remainder of the old hosiery card will be cancelled after that date,” said Mr. Costello. “The first coupon X 201, on the new card issued to all women 16 years of age and over with their new ration books is available for one pair of fullyfashioned silk or artificial silk stockings for six months commencing November 1 next. The first set of clothing coupons in the new. book will not be released until December 1.”