A campaign in Liverpool to reduce the number of sweet shops by a limit of 150 yards between each has been followed by a similar scheme being launched all over the country by the National Union of Retail Confectioners. Sweet shops have increased 150 per cent. —from 100,000 to 250,000 —in the last 20 years, while in the same time newsagents* shops, which have a distance limit, nave increased only 10 per cent. —from 40,000 to 44,000.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22628, 20 July 1935, Page 3
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