AUSTERITY FURNITURE
SYDNEY. Luxury furniture has been banned in Australia. Maximum prices have been fixed which rule it out and complete prohibition lias been placed on the bathroom cabinet, bookcase, cocktail cabinet. deck chair, fireside set, fire screen, floor or table standard electric lamp, garden seat, pot-plant stand or pedestal, writing bureau, any article of furniture manufactured of tubular steel. There will be no elaborate French polishing or over-stuffed arm-chairs and lounges. Only moderately priced utility articles are permitted. The idea is to divert skilled labour to the manufacture of aircraft and aircraft furnishings to save materials, to deter the refurnishing of homes and make more available to newly-weds. Last year there were 56,0G0 weddings—an Australian record —and 282,000 since the war began.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 64, Issue 90, 26 January 1944, Page 4
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