CIVILIAN CLOTHES
Black Marketeers Batten On Sailors FLOURISH WADS OF NOTES LONDON, June 27. Black marketeers are endeavouring to do business with demobilised sailors by offering them £18 for their new civilian clothes. Sailors coming from the demobilisation centre at St. Budeaux (Plymouth) are being approached by persons who are finding a considerable market among the 200 to 300 men demobilised daily. Buyers are attracted by the first-class quality of the clothes, and approach men in public houses or railway stations, where they produce a wad of notes and offer some old clothes in return for the Navy's civilian issue, consisting of suit or sports jacket and trousers, raincoat, hat, shoes, shirt with two collars, tie, cuff links and studs. _ ~ .. Many, who are finding the money useful, and who have civilian clothes at home, are willing to sell. It is no offence f<3r demobilised men to sell civilian clothes, but the naval authorities are determined to stamp out black marketing wherever possible.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 153, 30 June 1945, Page 5
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