"MY LADY'S DRESS"
MINUS THE JEWELLERY.
(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.")
CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. "I have no hesitation in saying that the manufacturing jewellery trade has practically ceased," said- Mr. G. T. White, a city .-jeweller, in the Arbitration Court this morning. "And we can't sco any indications that it ,will improve," he added. The present state of affairs was duo to the ruling fashions. Women were wearing beads and not expensive jewellery. There had been a gradual decline in business since the advent of the motor-car.
"Why," said Mr. Prime, the employers' representative, "there was a time when a woman would spend ten guineas on a frock and top that off with jewellery costing from £25 upward. Now she spends £25 on a frock and tops it off with a 3s 6d string of beads."
Mr. White said that his firm had been in business for fifty-four years. They no longer had sufficient work for apprentices. Jewellers throughout the Dominion had been dismissing the men, as there was no work for them.
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Evening Post, Volume 50, Issue 50, 27 August 1926, Page 7
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