MORE RESTRICTIONS.
CLOTHING AND COSMETICS. MEASURES IN ENGLAND. Still more restrictions are in store for the people of England as the result of war measures. Recently the Board of Trade made an order restricting the supply of a wide range of luxury and non-essential goods. Supplies to retailers have been reduced to two-third's of their pre-war requirements. Food is not included, but the order embraces stockings, costumes, jumpers, pulloverg. and underwear, furs and fur coats, corsets, braces, mattresses, holsters, cushions and carpets, furniture, cutlery, lipstick containers, llapjacks, powder puffs and umbrellas. Sporting equipment, such as football boots and boxing gloves, jewellery, watch chains, fountain pens, toys, cosmetics, hair dyes, kettles, pots and pans and glassware is also to lie curtailed.
The object is to cut down the import of goods which might be used for nonessential or luxury purposes, and to liberate labour, material and productive capacity for essential war needs. It is expected that many thousands of workers will be released for work on essential war production.
Shopkeepers will watch their supplies and not release them to the public too quickly.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 159, 6 July 1940, Page 12
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