RATION SONG
(Dedicated to Mr J. E. Thomas, Ration Controller, by the Auckland Drapers’ and Allied Traders’ Association) A coupon for a muffler, That’s what it’s s-posed to be, Of course there are some people Think they’re coupon free. A corselette needs four coupons, • Of course a corset’s three, Then why, I ask, for two you get A shirt or dungaree? A “binder” meeds a quarter (We thought that food was free, Especially as for “cheese cloth” There need no coupon be). “Ecclesiastical vestments” They also are buckshee, But must you also throw in too Friend “Scrim” of IZB. Soon coupons will be finished, And we will have to see Just how we can attire ourselves With “coupon free.” Our suits will be of “Arras” tweed, Our shirts of “tapestry,” And for the rest we’ll manage With some haberdashery. (From Matamata County Mail.)
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3177, 2 October 1942, Page 3
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