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Rationing of sugar continued to be a bone of contention for many Stirling area residents.

One indignant member of the town’s Co-operative Society wrote to the paper to say that since supplies had been restricted, because of the war, he had received his ration of one and a half pounds per week for his household of six.

However, since the area’s Food Controller issued new rationing cards for 1918, the writer had inexplicably been issued by the Co-op with brown instead of white sugar.

According to the householder, brown sugar was being allocated to those who had not submitted their new card to the Co-op.

The Co-op Society committee was blamed for the move, and the writer added: “Committee members cannot deny that they are doing this.

“I possess a card for sugar and it is marked with a large ‘B’, which stands for brown sugar.

“I think that one member has as much right to receive white sugar as another.

“I understand that 200 members are getting supplied with brown sugar rather than white.

“Perhaps those who ordered these instructions might kindly bring up their children too on brown sugar instead of white, and see how their families enjoy the change.”

He called on the Food Controller, the bureaucrat overseeing rationing in the area to intervene “for the children’s sake”.