SILK STOCKINGS

Grey River Argus, 5 December 1940, Page 5

SILK STOCKINGS

N.Z. SHORTAGE MUNITIONS COME FIRST [Per Press Association! PARLT. BLDGS., December 4. An appeal to the wearers of silk stockings not to buy so many pairs, and thus help to conserve overseas funds wherewith to buy munitions, was made by the Minister of Customs, Hon. W. Nash, in reply to an urgent question tabled by the Speaker, Mr W. E. Barnard, when the House met to-day at 2.30. Mr Barnard asked: If the Minister would take immediate steps to meet an impending acute shortage in the Dominion of women's silk and artificial silk hose?

The Minister said those who were asking for more silk stockings would do something more advantageous if they wore fine woollen stockings. At this moment, munitions were much more in a reasonable demand for the sterling funds than were silk stockings. s Mr Nash said he understood that arrangements were being made for the manufacture of hosiery to be extended in 1941, and, when these plans materialise it was expected that the supplies available from local industry should be adequate to meet requirements.