CIGARETTES BY AIR
SOUTH ISLAND SHORTAGE AWAITING LOWER PRICES Aeroplanes were used last Thursday to rush supplies of cigarettes from Christchurch and Dunedin to other points of tho South Island, owing to retail stocks being exceptionally low. Retailers, mindful of the fact that prices would bo substantially reduced with the coining into operation of the new duties, worked on very small stocks, and the demand for cigarettes at the lower wholesale rate was unprecedented. Even in Christchurch there were some tobacconists who could not satisfy their customers with the particular brands they desired, and it was some time before the retail orders could be met.
Taking a full load of cigarettes, one of the Canterbury Aero Club's machines, piloted by Mr. R. A. Kirkup, the club's instructor, left for Timaru at about 10.30 a.m. to-day. A machine from the West Coasty piloted by Mr. A. H. Nancekivell, arrived at Sockburn at about 1 p.m., and left with a full load on its return to the West Coast.
Another aeroplane left Dunedin at 10 a.m. with supplies for Invercargill, Gore, Cromwell and Oamaru. The Blenheim-Nelson territory is covered from Wellington, as far as the distribution of many brands of cigarettes is concerned.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21949, 5 November 1934, Page 10
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