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REDUCTION IN SIZE PRESSURE ON SHIPPING SPACE MELBOURNE, Mar. 2. The Commonwealth Government will requisition all tea held by merchants and traders, and there will be a reduction of 20 per cent, in the supplies of tobacco and cigarettes to retailers this month. These announcements were made by the Minister of Customs (Senator R. V. Keane), who said that because of interruptions to the normal channels, delays had occurred in obtaining supplies. Senator Keane told newspaper proprietors that they must reduce the size of their papers to “ the irreducible minimum.” He added: “Our demands for war equipment are so great that there is little prospect of cargo priorities being guaranteed for anything but war production goods. The prospects of shipping space for newsprint are now exceedingly slender.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24855, 3 March 1942, Page 5
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