RATIONING IN CANADA
COUPONS FOR TEA AND SUGAR BUTTER TO BE ON THE LIST As everyone knows, butter is strict ]y rationed in Britain, but it may not be generate known that the rationing of Imt ter is also contemplated in f a.n ada. Writing to a friend in lnvercni gill, a Toronto resident says: "We a if gradually getting rationed over here but we have nothing to complain about yet. We use coupons for tea. sugar, and coffee, and T expect wo shall luusing them for butter soon. There was quite a scarcity of meat for a while, but it is iiincli bettor now. Eggs an getting high in price.’' The sliortagi of butter and meat in Canada is prob ably tiecause Canada. is neither a cattle-raising nor a. sheep-breeding country. The rationing of coffee may no doubt be accounted for by the fact flint many Canadians, like the Americans. prefer coffee to tea.
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXII, Issue 8869, 5 February 1943, Page 3
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