TRADE APPROVES OF TEA RATIONING

Southland Times, Issue 24760, 3 June 1942, Page 4

TRADE APPROVES OF TEA RATIONING

ALLOWANCE CONSIDERED SUFFICIENT The tea rationing scheme introduced at the beginning of this week is considered by the grocery trade in Invercargill to have been satisfactorily arranged. Grocers are particularly pleased that the system of registration by consumers with grocers, as in the case of sugar, has not been followed with tea. As it is apparently intended that consumers may buy four weeks supply at once, it will be unnecessary to wrap tea in smaller packages than a half-pound. The ration is considered by the trade to be as liberal as could be expected, and only heavy tea drinkers will find the quantity inadequate. Supplies available recently made a form or rationing necessary in the shops, and only limited quantities were sold to customers. z The opinion was expressed yesterday that households with young families would find the ration of two ounces weekly for each person more than sufficient, as few children were allowed to drink tea. On the other hand, elderly married couples whose families had left home would probably suffer a shortage, as four ounces would scarcely allow morning and afternoon cups of tea as well as tea at meal-times. It is understood that the New Zealand tea ration is much more liberal than that in Great Britain.