RATIONS BY BOOK.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14647, 3 July 1918, Page 8

RATIONS BY BOOK.

' ■■• ■ . uJut? ■ A NATIONAL. SCHEME. • london; May i. Food rationing on a" national; basis is to" begin pa, (July 14, .when. Ration bookt; will take the place of' 'the -present loose cards. .. " — : ■•■ ;- . •"- \\ \ It is pi-oposed ' tlia-t the "ration books shall be issued through the lbbal'loo^ control committees during June an£ | July. The individual vsyjstem Qf,,i,egistra-' ! tion will be maintained, • and the .bppks ' will contain sheets of ■ -with 1 ; counterfoils for- the rationing at lea^t' of sugar, butter, margarine,, lard; .and^ meat. Spare coupons and ...spare ; pa^e^. I with spaces for markingjoft .will be -in-* eluded for use m the rationing of othqrj foodstuffs if it is found necessary? tjo^ extend the control of distribution andt consumption. There will be a differently ] oolored. ticket jfpr v each i ai'ti l cle t^tioned^ i —^probably yelilow . fpr, , sngar^; lTi for butter, or., mai;ga};ine,,^nd:red fq^ t n^eat4-, | and the ticket»;>WjUltbe ; pi4n^ed;/oru,i>ftper, j specially, engraved! i so a®. siipj^Jiinimi^vlihe' j risk .of forgery u \ ¥ ft?tc>;ha,ve ;a. currency of, 16 weeks>,(a > v ; . ii>. ■ j The arrangements- now aainounced com - ; plet© the .gi^aduaUev!olutiQn 4 .p | f,! i a jnationja^ •plan .outi of , localvj "exi>eriments. ;Meat rationing was madcaiftfc.vynaJUJn ; its ope^a-." tion on ApriL 7, aixrv'weeks, after ,tht> Bystein- had been' started irbj^rj'dbtn.- Phfy rationing of fats..( is : 'stHl,.. ;controlledj locally, and not: - Jnor« ■ wan -..jUWiOQp; people are at present "rafibhed «for .laid. j Tea is .rationefl ift,^A jiunjl?er pf L .towns,' ; but not m La^vdon. : "' ; Ujilesfeithe.imp^pye-t | ment m *rupplies » rembyes ,altpge)i)ior^ ,the, j neqesajijr. f pr ratiouod At Villj probably" be >viithi^.th"e general, .scheme in..the.Bun^j^er 1 ... ,)!, , . ' ; , ,