STINGING REBUKE
Australian Luxury Shoppers (Received March 6, 10.50 p.m.) SYDNEY, March 6. An orgy of buying by women who are thronging city shops to get winter furs, expensive frocks and other luxuries was condemned by the Prime Minister, Mr. Curtin, today. "I put their action in the same category as excessive drinking,” he said. "Its evil effect on the community is most obvious. It amounts to luxury and selfishness for a favoured few, and it is also evidence of misbegotten wealth and faulty methods of distribution. “Usually the women who wear these expensive things are 1(01 half as goodlooking as those who cannot afford them.”
Mr. Curtin added that he could not Imagine how these luxury goods got here. Their production and distribution would be drastically curtailed when the Government’s plans for war organization of industry were in full operation.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 138, 7 March 1942, Page 6
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