IN SHORT SUPPLY
SPORTS EQUIPMENT By Telegraph—Press Association INVERCARGILL, January 17. “Golfers should be warned to economise to help themselves and everybody else. They will have to play longer with their golf balls,” said a prominent sports dealer of long standing to-day. English golf balls, he said, were unprocurable and the only way to counter that was to make them last longer. Import restrictions had reduced the present and expected stocks to a small portion of what they were n ordinary times and now they were unprocurable in the city. Tennis balls, too, could not be bought wholesale and the dealer said he was supplying only his regular customers. Gut for restringing tennis rackets was in short supply, and though a type of gut was being made in the Dominion it lacked the tension resistance and the spring of the English product. Many other lines of miscellaneous sporting equipment were also going to be hard to procure. These included badminton shuttle cocks and trout line.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21555, 18 January 1940, Page 6
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165IN SHORT SUPPLY Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21555, 18 January 1940, Page 6
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