S.O.S. (SEND OVER STOCKING)

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 192, 15 August 1941, Page 6

S.O.S. (SEND OVER STOCKING)

Six sock less sisters sadly arta and said (sorrv it sounds sutrcenriw sorrow had turned their head)Snow seems sure to sift cm to out shivering skins. Social Security simply should com our shiny shins.

It seems a shocking system that sinews and shanks should shew The shops wo ve sought! The shelves we ve searched: While somebody stood on our toe. Even the sordid sausage filing ™ its shining sack. But we sob ourselves to sleep be. cause still silk stockings we kriSIB'LA.NT SIBYL

If stockings are to be in short supply let ill ere be equality of acrifiee and distribute evenly what there are by means of a coupon system. "Just a Housewife"' knows perfectly well that a girl employed In the city cannot do with one pair of cotton stockings. We girls do thinlr of flu boys when they left Greece, and we wonder what they must ihfalr of organised labour in New Zealand on so-called essential work clinging so zealously to their 40-hour week. It will be time enough to ask we girls to part with our silk stocking when, if ever, the Government ass these workers to make a sacrifiot Our Canadian friends want to mamfacture stockings here in order to supply the demand. Why won 1 ! the Government allow them to do si? Cheer up. girl?.. If there is to be an election you will all have stockings before November. HARASSED BUSINESS GIBL