TOBACCO SUPPLIES
POSITION IN WANGANUI Any improvement on present supplies of tobacoc and cigarettes is unlikely, in the opinion of city retailers. For some time, all orders placed with merchants have been met on the basis of a one-third reduction in quantity compared with supplies during the corresponding month of the previous year. Consequently, stocks are never very la K ge and in some cases shelves are almost empty by the end of the month.
The disappearance from the market of some brands of tobaccos and cigarettes had narrowed the smoker’s choice, but customers readily purchase the types available.
"The reasonable normal demands of the public can be met if panic buying and hoarding are not practised,” said one retailer, who added that rumours of price increases and shortages resulted in “mad rushes” that considerably aggravated the position.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 65, 19 March 1943, Page 4
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138TOBACCO SUPPLIES Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 65, 19 March 1943, Page 4
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