TEA NOT SCARCE
RATIONED BY MERCHANTS CHECK TO PANIC BUYING New Zealand merchants recently j instituted a rationing scheme in the distribution of tea to check any tendency to panic buying, the public evidently having come to the conclusion that because Australia had introduced a severe measure of rationing, similar action was inevitable in the Dominion. It was stated yesterday, however, that tea stocks in the Dominion were at the present time very good. Australia had been buying largely from Java, while the bulk of teas imported into New Zealand came from Ceylon. There would possibly be a big cut in tea importations if Japanese action brought about a blockade of the coasts of India and Ceylon, but the immediate outlook was that tea supplies of the usual quality were not in jeopardy.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24243, 8 April 1942, Page 4
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133TEA NOT SCARCE New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24243, 8 April 1942, Page 4
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