The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-04-12
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lobe REGISTERED ].
Grocers REQUESTED Not To Take
On Any New Customers So
Close Check Can BE Kept

after to DO registered by the dealers,
especially Of those who are flour pur.
chassrs, 80 that sveyy ;pound of fseF
purchased by them :. ON week to week,
may be teta,sas ( i AIS .alesigasd w
put stop to over. buying under the
restrictive authority Of the TUritQiEf
Food Commission, and 10 give both foE
GERS and commissioners an opportunity
TO oheck 'up ons the amount of flour
conserved. Y
Furthermore, grocers are requested
not to take on any new customers, for
flour, and should aid the conservation
movement by knitting their customers !
to one-andtH half pounds per persSh per
week.
Inasmuch as the flour imports here
| will be less and less until next season 3 =
crops are available, the grocers will
find il imperative to closely follow the
rules laid down by the Commission.
Mills on the mainland are already
limiting the quantity shipped to jobbers
and when jobbers have sold their allot-
ment they will not have any more wheat
flour to sell the retailer.
eff you sell your six months allot.
ment in three months there Is liable to
be three months when you have no
wheat flour to SELF, is the caution ex-
pressed by the local food commission in
a bulletin which was issued and mailed
yesterday to all grocers and flour deal
ers.
Orders Prom Hoover
The food commission, is also calling
attention to bulletin of National Food
Commissioner HooveF,tofB broadcast
which came to Hawaii as 10 all commits
sions, with regard to more HoOveriz-
ing in wheat products, and caution
ing cafes and restaurants from giving
more than certain allowance of bread,
etc., to a customer for a single meal
Briefly, two ounces Of bread only may
be served, and this means about two
average slices. Some restaurants now
serve an entire plateful Of bread to
customer, containing from five to seven
slices of bread. This will Immediately
be cut down. The order Of Mr.. Hoover,
which applies here, follows:
"To effect the needed saving Of wheat
we are wholly dependent upon the vol.
untary assistance of the American .peo-
ple. and we ask that the following rules
shall be observed:
81. HOuseholders to use not to ex-
coed total of ~ pounds per week
of wheat products per person. This
means not more than TX pounds of
Victory bread containing the required
percentage of substitutes and one-half
pound Of cooking flour, maearoni, crack
ers, pastry, pies, cakes, wheat break
fast cereals, all eombinedyi.u
"2. Public eating places, and clubs to
observe two wheatless days per week,
Monday and "Wednesday, ps at present
In addition thereto, not to seTye to any
eohe guest 81, any. one, meal an aggre:
lgate of breadstuffs, nacaToni, crackers,
pastry, pies, cakes, wheat breakfast
cereals containing q total of more than
ounces of wheat flour. No wheat
products to be served unless specially
ordered.
"PubIic, eating establishments not to
buy more than pounds of wheat prod
ucts for each 90 meals served, thus CON
forming with the limitation requested
of the householders.
Limit To Flour Sales
80. Retailers to sell not more than
one eighth Of a barrel of flour to any
town customer at any one time and not
more than one quarter of a barrel to
any country customer at any one time,
and in no case to sell wheat products
other cereals.
~, We ask the bakers and grocers
to reduce the volume of Victory bread
sold by delivery of the three quarter
- pound loaf where ! pound was sold be-
fore, and corresponding proportions in
. other weights. We also ask bakers not
to increase the amount of their wheat
o flour purchases beyond 70 percent Of
. the average monthly amount purchased
in the four months prior to March l.
- "5. Manufacturers using wheat prod
ucts for nOnfood purposes, SHOULD cease
! such use entirely, ,a+
No Limit On Other Cereals
'6 There is no limit upon the use
of other cereals, flours, and meals, corn,
barley, buckwheat. potato flour, etc.
"Many thousand families throughout
the land are now using no wheat prod,
ucts whatever, except very small
j amount for cooking purposes, and are
doing so in perfect health and Isatisfac,
tiOn. There is no reason why all Of the
American people who are able to cook
J in their own households can not subsist
perfectly well with the use of less
wheat products than ~ pounds a week,
and we specially ask the well-to-dO
households in the country to follow this
additional program in order that we
i, may provide the necessary marginal
d supplies for those parts Of the commun
: ity less able to adapt themselves to so
u large a porportion of substitutes
Voluntary Cooperation Sought
. "In order that WI" shall be, able, I'd
u make the wheat exports that are alb,
u solutelv demanded Of US to maintain
- the civil pc sulation and soldiers of the
II Allies and our own Army we propose
u to supplement the voluntary coopera.
i ton of the public by a further limita.
Il ton of distribution and we shall place
at once restriction on distribution
which will be adjusted from time to
time to secure as nearly equitable dis
r. tribution as possible. With the arrival
:, Of harvest we should he able to relax
r. such restrictions; until then we ask
:. for the nece"Sary patience, sacrifice
I, and cooperation Of the distributing
J. trades"
| - T. s. 8.
-, A PARENTS DUTY.
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