EVERYDAY SIGHT
QUEUES IN AUSTRALIA
Once a familiar sight only when a good theatrical show was in season, queues are now a feature of Australian life for anything from baby clothes to tobacco and cigarettes, says a Melboui'ne paper. Shopkeepers complain that a queue next door drives business away, because of the difficulty potential customers have in reaching the doors. They want something done about stopping these lines of people, often three to four abreast, all over the footpath outside their own doors. Queuers do not like standing for hours in the hot sun outside other people's doors, either. Some join queues because they need the things which are to be sold; others because they have' time on their hands and money to spend. There are queues at the baker's and the butcher's, the soft drink shop, the tobacco kiosk, and at wine and spirit stores. One thing is noticeable, about all these queues—they do not sing and amuse each other; they just stand and wait in hopeful resignation.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 16, 20 January 1944, Page 8
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169EVERYDAY SIGHT Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 16, 20 January 1944, Page 8
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