“CITY OF QUEUES”
MEALS AND CIGARETTES IN SYDNEY
‘'Sydney is a city of queues, and to see Sydney would do many people good and make them a little more patient when they have to wait in a small queue to book a Is 6d scat at the pictures or they have to wait live minutes to get a meal in a restaurant,” said Mr H. C. Hassall. a Christchurch businessman, in an interview after a visit to Australia.
In Sydney, queues were formed outside restaurants before 11 a.m. for their opening at 11.45 a.m. or noon. A nol uncommon sight was to see queues of up lo 1000 waiting early in the morning lor the street poxes at which cigarettes were sold to open and the hue of two-thirds of the hopeful members of the public was to see the slide closed down before they had obtained their cigarettes. The packets of cigarettes were not filled; Mr Hassall brought back a packet containing nine —not 10 as in New Zealand —for lOd. Even in the first-class restaurants, where no more than 5s could be spent on a meal, all patrons had to queue u? for dinner, two sittings—at 6 p.m. and 7.15 p.m.— usually being observed, said Mr Hassall.
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Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24633, 1 August 1945, Page 6
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