FOOD AND FUEL.
FAMINE IN RUSSIA. RATIONING RESORTED TO. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (“Times” Cables.) RIGA, Oct. 29. The Soviet trade commissariat has introduced a further rationing of food and other necessaries, pointing out that if members of the co-operative societies' continued receiving the present rations non-members would- have nothing. Co-operatives have, therefore, been ordered to supply non-members with a portion of their rations, but less per head than co-operative members. The commissariat- has convened a special conference on how to maintain bread (supplies and reduce queues on. the ground that a large proportion of workers is obliged to - wait in, queues after work and often obtains nothing be' ‘ause early-comers l secured everything. The conferen-e has decided to distribute imported rice, groats, and beans to eke' out the bread.. Simultaneously the fuel famine is becoming acute. According to the Izvestia queues are enormous. The ration will he five cubic metres of firewood weekly.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 31 October 1928, Page 7
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