SHORTAGE OF GUMBOOTS
MINISTER URGES PATIENCE (p a ) WELLINGTON. Feb. 11. “ We are receiving less than 25 per cent of the aggregate supply of gumboots we requisitioned for from overseas for essential purposes.” said the Minister of Supply, Mr D. G. Sullivan, to-day when reiterating the acuteness of the position. He said there had been a deluge of applications under the recently announced scheme of control, and emphasised that the only course was to release what supplies there were to those in the most urgent need. The supply available, the Minister said was being released to the dairy farming community, the balance being distributed to other types of farmers and certain industrial and other workers entitled to priority. The stocks were so meagre compared with the number of applications already received from members of these groups, however that many people would have to await their individual releases patiently until additional supplies came forward.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25458, 12 February 1944, Page 6
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