Controlled Supply To Stop Hoarding
fPer Press Association— Copyright] WELLINGTON, This Day. Though saying he was not aware of there being any such general custom among grocers, the secretary of the Wellington Grocers’ Association (Mr J. A. Kellow) gave some grounds justifying the practice in some shops of refusing to supply certain lines in which there is short-supply unless other goods to 10/- worth or more were purchased at the same time. Instead of co-operating in the efforts to conserve short-supply goods and help them to go round, some people, he said, set out to build up a supply—that is, hoard such goods—and to obtain them went the rounds of the shops. He explained that in the Suburbs there was not much trouble ar shopkeepers there knew their customers, but the position in city shop? was different. He added that if specific cases were given of shops refusing to sell except under conditions such as he had mentioned he would be pleased to institute inquiries.
Such of the cable news in this issue as is so headed has appeared in “The Times.” and is sent to this paper by special permission. It should be understood that the opinions are not those of “The Times" unless expressly stated to be so-
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Northern Advocate, 7 October 1941, Page 6
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