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Food rationing signboard

Title

Year/Period

1942-1945

Region

Singapore

Object Type

identification signs

Dimension

Object size: L 105.7 x W 2.1 x H 30.1

Accession No.

1998-00847

Collection of

National Museum of Singapore

Imports of food items and other basic commodities were disrupted during the war due to Allied attacks on Japanese shipping in the region. As a result, food rationing was implemented during the Occupation, as this signboard indicates.