GERMAN STOCKS OF FOOD

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 255, 28 October 1939, Page 4

GERMAN STOCKS OF FOOD

RATIONING IN I'KOGRE K >. Each German shopkeeper must fill out a signed declaration of the quantities of products he has in stock, says the New York Times of August 28. For the next five months each man may buy, and then only with special permission, one tube or stick of shav- < ing cream or soap. I Rice was added to-day to the list of products on the restricted list, and I therefore may be purchased only 'm specified quantities upon presentation lof a ration card on which the pur- ! chase is registered. Sugar in excess i of the stipulated weekly amount may l be procured for preserving fruits. 1 Purchases of milk products, oils and i fats may be made by each individual I only twice a week and then in the quantities stipulated. Coffee, sugar. | and marmalade may be purchased but • once a week and meat thrice weekly. I Announcement of the rationing sysI tern came late Saturday night after I all stores were closed. It took the population wholly by surprise. The system, it was semi-officially reported, is evidence that preparations are already made by Germany's "economic general staff” for any national emergency and is designed to prevent those "well situated" from hoarding reserves at the expense of those "who have to live from hand to mouth." f uels for private motor vehicles will be sold beginning Friday only upon presentation of a eard. After Sunday all motor vehicles including trucks and buses must have a card order tank. These cards, it is announced, will be issued only when the use to which the vehicle is put is "in tr.r general interest." At frequent intervals to-day radio stations broadcast explanations of the purpose of the rationing system and assured them that it is in the interest of all Germans.