SOVIET TROUBLES.
FOOD AND FUEL -FAMINE. United Press Assn, by El. Tel. Copyright (Australian Press Association.) •(Received! October 30. 8 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 29. The Times’ Riga correspondent reports that tho Soviet Trade Commissariat has introduced further rationing of food and other necessaries, pointing out that, if members of the co-operative societies continued receiving their present rations, nonmembers could get nothing. It, therefore, ordered co-opern fives to supply non-members with a portion thereof, but loss per head than cooperative members. The Commissariat has convened a special conference on how to keep lip the bread supplies and reduce the queues, on the ground that a large proportion of the workers are obliged to wait in queues after work and often got nothing, because the early-comers got everything. The conference decided to distribute imported rice, groats and beans to eke out the bread. Simultaneously, the fuel famine is. becoming acute. According to Izvestin the queues are enormous and the ration will be .five cubic metros of.fire"wood weekly.
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Gisborne Times, 31 October 1928, Page 5
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