CLOTHING RATIONING
NEED FOR CONTINUATION QUESTIONED P.A. AUCKLAND, Aug. 4. Doubt concerning the need for continuing clothing and footwear rationing in New Zealand was expressed in a report of the Auckland Provincial Retailers’ Association, which was presented at the association’s annual meeting to-night. Clothing'rationing was introduced at a time of severe shortages, the report stated. The overall stock position had not improved, but the executive felt that the time had arrived when official consumer rationing could be dispensed with. “Clothing coupons are in no way curtailing the public’s ability to buy,” said the report, “as the number of available coupons now bears no relationship whatever to the available consumer goods. It is doubtful whether any • useful purpose is served by retaining rationing.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26531, 5 August 1947, Page 6
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