THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is Incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY. “Public Service.” MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1942. A WIDER MEANING

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3111, 27 April 1942, Page 4

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is Incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY. “Public Service.” MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1942. A WIDER MEANING

Anzac Hale, the twenty-sev-enth anniversary of an epic event which has grown into a national commemoration, was fittingly honoured in Paeroa on Saturday when some 1000 people attended the service at the Cenotaph on Primrose Hill. Anzac, to-day, seems to belong almost to another World, but its, meaning and its message remain the same. To-day both have grown in significence, gaining further endorsement as fresh deeds of gallantry and sacrifice are ticked off on records of time. Now laurels emblazoned on the battle honours of our young nationhood spelling in imperishable letters of fire, Greece, Crete, Libya. With the days of war still stretching away into the future, we are given to wonder how many more fresh titles will be added. When the last capitulation is made and the warweary nations have drawn aside to count their respective costs and to regulate their monuments and national days of memory, Anzac will be given a new and greater meaning. Within its observation will be listed the sorrow of a double sacrifice —the dual memories of two the pain of two great periods of sacrifice. Yet with it will be born again the hope and the faith in new and grander ideals; the determination to plan and mould a better world for humanity and the launching of a finer spirit of understanding and toleration.

UNFAIR SCRAMBLE

Experience is a sound teacher, and valuable experience in rationing is being gained by the authorities and the retail trade as a result of preparations to control the sale of sugar. One of the principal lessons taught during the last week or so appears to be that the rationing of any particular commodity should be introduced without preliminary announcement and delay. In the case of sugar this talk and delay has caused a wasteful and unfair scramble for supplies. To-day in many homes where the custom has been to buy sugar a few pounds at a time people are hoarding this commodity by the 701 b. bag and grocers everywhere have been introduced to the less resourceful but more industrious hoarder who buys pound, here, there and everywhere, accumulating an unnecessary quantity of sugar in a multitude of paper bags. It has become only too plain that a large section of the community succumbs to the hoarding instinct, without any thought of the possible selfishness of its action, the moment there is evidence or rumour of shortage, let along a promise of rationing. And as hoarding actually causes .shortage—it was reported recently to be to blame for the short supply of matches —it seems absolutely necessary in the interests of equity and economy, as well as to protect retail traders and merchants from the rush and upset of a falsely-inflated demand, that control should get in ahead of the hoarder.