rationing+for+WW2

In 1943 rationing laws started to be in forced all around Australia. People were given coupon books. These books contained coupons and different coloured stamps which you had to present when buying something on the rationing list. The number of stamps and coupons you received in your book depended on the size of your family. If you didn’t have a coupon or stamp for something on the rationing list it was as simple as you couldn’t buy it. Some of the things on the list were eggs, vegetables, fruit, meats, clothes and linen, butter, sugar and other cooking ingredients. Although this worked pretty well some problems occurred when people started selling things on the black market, and farmers started selling their produce to people without coupons or stamps for extremely high prices.

__**Bibliography:**__ "Rationing bites even harder", (1990), Geelong Advertiser, 1990, Souvenir no 5, p.6.

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