WOULD GIVE THEM SOCKS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 180, 1 August 1941, Page 6

WOULD GIVE THEM SOCKS

Well, girls, we've been soldapf! The war is not the cause of W stocking shortage after aIL So flu hon. member of Parliament «Ad called on us to be patriotic, etc jffi Jed us up the garden path,iadmr patriotism was just a lot <rf brnt 'Government import restrictiODl* There's the reasra, and wbenies asks for a permit to open a hMM? plant here, its refused. I KODflr what tiie reason was, and wouMfef? to ask the Hon. D. G. Sullivan H£ was a good one. or is the anSRBi "lemon"? Also, Mr. Fairbrotherte not think we have much to ottnfki about, but there is no shortage e' men's socks, so he doesn't hat t> face the cold weather with laddsri hose or bare legs whether he Bte it or not. I am sure if sonou would start a petition to send to & hon. members of Parliament andp them at the stocking counters tf our shops, every woman and girl c Xew Zealand would hasten to 4° it. Not that it would do «? good, but we would at least Aw these hon. gentlemen thatweaieW the half-wits they seem to think» In the meantime, my hon. legss* bare and cold, and my temper» pretty hot at the inconaprehensSk altitude of these men. _ ONCE LABODB