All vegetables grown were taken to the government store to be sold and any profits were shared among the men.

The number of people living off the government store was high, and few settlers wanted to leave.

Governor King was operating on a strict programme of economy and would not take the goods into the government store, even at a 50% discount.

Some pack-saddles, clothes, blankets and arms were provided from the government stores.

It was used as a government store until 1960.

In the government store, it goes up to 8,000 zlotys.

Today, Cubans say the food rations they can buy with the old pesos at government stores are not enough to live on.

There was none at the government store, he said.

The other was made a government store and was so loaded that the floor broke down.

Ms. Khoroshikh, 47, has been smuggling for more than four years, having started after the government store where she worked closed.