COUPONS FOR BRIDES

Waikato Times, Volume 131, Issue 21758, 18 June 1942, Page 2

COUPONS FOR BRIDES

U LINEN AND BLANKETS J 1 WELLINGTON, Wednesday y Provisions have been made by the e Rationing Controller, Mr J. E. t Thomas, for coupons for newly-mar-f lied couples for tne purchase of f blankets and household linen, and it e is anticipated that these will be availe able for distribution early next week. 0 Announcing this, the Minister ol 1 Supply, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, said f 78 coupons would be issued in future s to every newiy-married couple, as . well as to those who had married 5 since the introduction of the cioth- = ing rationing order on May 29. The extra coupons would be available for the purchase of blankets and J linen necessary for setting up house. 3 Marriage certuicates would have to 1 be pruduced, together with the wives’ ration books, f The same provisions will apply to i members of tne armed services ret turning from overseas who were r married immediately prior to their 1 leaving on active service and who a desire to set up homes of their own. £ Discharge papers will have to be . produced. ’’ The Minister added that a scheme was being completed by the New Zealand Federation of Retail Drapers 1 whereby blankets, sheets, tablecloths 3 and other household linen would be 1 ! set aside by retailers on account of 1 | prospective brides. The goods ' ' would be released as soon after the - I marriage as the coupons were pro- ’ | duced to complete the purchase, i Mr Sullivan also announced that j the special allowance of 26 coupons ; to expectant mothers would be avail- ■ i able lor distribution from next week. 3 ' Special cards of coupons for prison--3 i sers of war were now being issued ’ i to the next-of-kin through the Pri- " S soners of War inquiry offices. .1 ! i ; Doctor’s Prescriptions i “It is not all of us who can read a . doctor’s prescription,” said Mr H. t Campbell, chairman of the Auckt land Manpower (Industrial) Corr|- . mittee, when an appeal was being ! ' heard in Hamilton today on behalf ; of a chemist's clerk who, it was • * stated, could both read and enter r j doctors' prescriptions into the firm ' | records.