RATION REDUCED
Registration with Grocers Abandoned ONLY 10 OUNCES OF SUGAR . '-WELLINGTON, March 15, The reduction of the household sugar -ration from 12 ounces to IQ oun•ces/weekry; complementary reduction in. air other sugar quotas and allocations, and. abandonment of registration- of .ebnsufners with their grocers l.were), measures announced to-day, by 'Mr. Nordmeyer on behalf of' the '.'Minister, of Supply and Munitions. The changes will operate as /from’ Snextr Monday. The Minister said-that The world sugar supply posi--tiori had; progressively deteriorated in ’the' last '■ three years. Whatever reserves forrrierly existed were rapidly disappearing. Accordingly, the War Cabinet decided that to conform with our present stock position? and? future ?' prOspe'cts, there was no option but tc reduce the existing ration. „ .
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Grey River Argus, 16 March 1945, Page 2
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