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“An Erk” asks why the “dreadful looking hats” that the Air Force girls are given cannot be discarded and material saved by issuing glengarries, “in which the Army girls look particularly smart.”
“Citizen” endorses the comments of Mr L. Rollings, president of the Consumers’ League, on citrus fruit prices. Growers on the north coast of New South Wales, he says, are receiving approximately the following prices: navels 4s 3d, grape fruit 4s 9d, and lemons 5s a bushel case. Oranges at the orchard can be bought 30 to 40 a shilling. .
E. G. Wade praises an “inspiring and militant sermon’’ preached at St. Mark’s Church on Sunday eveningone to send hearers away “determined to ‘fight the good fight’ wherever the devil was to be found, in their own hearts or on the battlefield.”
Norton Wright advocates a “Cinderella Law” to clear country dance halls of children by midnight. Many boys and girls as young as 13 or 14, he says, stay on from 8 p.m, till 2 or 2.30 a.m.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23749, 22 September 1942, Page 6
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