BEAUTY IN GROCERY

Hawera Star, Volume L, 10 January 1931, Page 9

BEAUTY IN GROCERY

“'IITA'XXEQUINiS” may find their nay into the grocers’ shops of the not too distant future, according to a hint given by Mr. 'Howard S. Salmon at tlie inaugural luncheon of the Grocers’ Exhibition at the Agricultural Hall. Islington, recently. He stated that the fair attendants at the display would challenge comparison with the show girls of the drapers’ and other fashionable exhibitions, adding: “I think the trade will have to look increasingly to attractive young women to encourage the sale of produce. Young people are showing an increas. ing interest in fitting themselves for all sides of the trade, and the women are playing an increasing part in the competitions at the exhibition.”

Mannequins to • Sell Bacon

Por the first, time a woman has entered for the gammon boning and rolling class —one of the few remaining male preserves in the grocery world. opposition to the ‘Government’s Consumers’ Council Bill was voiced by Sir .Tames Martin, J.P., head of the new grocery amalgamation, in opening the exhibition.

“We have only scotched the Bill for the time being, but not killed it,” he said. “I can but affirm with great certainty that the Bill can only be worked if the Government obtains control both of imports and production.

“We have built up the industry on a basis of private enterprise, and we are not going to stand by and see substituted for it a Socialistic system.' ’