Ex-Soldiers Ask For Guaranteed Tobacco
(FA.) INVERCARGILL, This Day The executive of the Invercaigill Returned Services Association at a meeting last night, passed tiie following resolution: — “In view of the present unfair distribution of tobacco and cigarettes in New Zealand as it affects recently, discharged servicemen, this executive strongly recommends to the Ministers for Supply and Defence that such men be guaranteed a weekly ration of tobacco and/or cigarettes for at least six months after discharge on a plan similar to that which has been in operation in Australia for some years for 'Australian discharged servicemen.”
Members deplored the treatment being given to servicemen, who, by reason of the time of their return to New Zealand, were barred from the lists of storekeepers and tobacconists. “If girls of 17 wculd stop smoking, there would be plenty of tobacco for soldiers,” said the chairman (Mr. W. Bell). “It is girls of that age who are causing the shortage.”
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Northern Advocate, 20 December 1945, Page 3
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