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Rationing and Kitbags replied on: 2/3/2007 9:43:25 PM Ripley and Heanor Mar 13th 1942 After April 6th no baker will be allowed to bake or sell any white bread and from April 29th onwards neither bakers nor manufacturers will be allowed to bake or manufacture anything white,whether bread, buns, cakes or biscuits. Motoring for pleasure will disappear on July 1st when the basic petrol ration will be withdrawn. The supplementary petrol allowance will be further reduced beginning with the period April-May. The value of the basic ration coupons for may and June will be halved, and as from July the basic ration itself will cease to exist. Absenteeism at war factories will in future be a direct offence subject to prosecution under the Defence regulations. it wasn't all gloom..... The Board of Education announces that the Ministry of Food are now able to release more milk for schoolchildren and the restriction of the school milkscheme in grant aided schools to one third of a pint per child per day will terminate on March 15th. After that date the children who wish to do so will be permitted to have two thirds of a pint per day.

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