N.S.W. CONTROLS

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 150, 22 December 1945, Page 7

N.S.W. CONTROLS

MORE MODIFICATIONS

CONCESSIONS FOR XMAS

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)

Rec. 9 a.m

SYDNEY, Dec. 21

A further lifting of restrictions on the use of gas and electricity was announced by the Minister of Local Government, Mr. Cahrll, today. Listeners have longer periods in which to wse their radio sets. Ironing and washing periods have been extended. Some concession to the holiday spirit has been made by allowing theatres to open for limited periods. Cooking periods have been lengthened, and a special effort made to make the Christmas and New Year holidays as pleasant as possible despite the shortage of coal. Householders will now be permitted to use a single light up to 11 p.m., as against 9 p.m. previously. Gas coppers may now be used in any two hours of a week, and the time for ironing is also limited to two hours a week, as is convenient to householders. Listeners may operate receiving sets between 7 and 8 a.m. and 7 and 10 p.m. All restrictions, with the exception of those applying to factories, shops, warehouses, offices, advertising signs, shop fronts, and display lighting, hot water and storage systems, and bath heaters, have been lifted from 7 p.m. on Christmas Eve to. midnight on Boxing Day, and from 7 p.m. on New Year's Eve to midnight on New Year's Day. Broadcasting stations will be permitted to operate throughout these periods.