DELIVERY OF GOODS

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25243, 23 July 1947, Page 2

DELIVERY OF GOODS

MISS HOWARD SEEKS IMPROVEMENT BOYCOTT ON SHOPS SUGGESTED •• The Press ” Special Service NAPIER, July 22. Shops which did not deliver goods could be boycotted as a means of coercion, said the Minister of Health, Miss M. B. Howard, at a public meeting of women in Napier. “So long as women are prepared to be packhorses, shopkeepers will let them,” said the Minister when a questioner, who maintained that women s health was being adversely affected by carrying heavy shopping parcels, asked whether something could be done about obtaining more deliveries. “Compulsion can be put on some of the shops.” said Miss Howard, who suggested that the women should form a deputation requesting shops to deliver their goods. If shopowners refused, women should combine and boycott these shops, thus forcing them to deliver. “You have no idea of the power of women and how frightened they are of women,” said the Minister. “The Government has done all possible to encourage deliveries again,” Miss Howard continued. “First, it was a tyre shortage for delivery vans—that was fixed. Then it was a petrol shortage—that has been remedied. But many still want to hold that extra little profit.”