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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 2, 3 January 1941, Page 5

London is no longer a Mecca for professional and business men and women, for those who follow the arts and study the sciences, and those others who seek smart entertainment, states an English writer. London has lost a great deal of her vast peacetime papulation. It has trickled out of tho city aud over the whole of England, and London has to follow her markets into tho highways and byways. She is doing the trek on wheels. Shops are to be found in vans and businesses in caravans which rove the countryside. Shopping vans are on tho roads of wartime England. Alany of them serve tho members of the various women’s services who are tucked away in small groups in isolated villages. They sell all sorts of oddments necessary to feminine comfort, from hair-nets to magazines, and from cosmetics to chocolates. A group of commercial artists, finding their Chelsea studio, ihese days, none too happy to w r ork in, are following the same plans of carrying their wares into the provinces. They hope for brisk trade on the road, especially in warwedding presents.