CROWD BREAKS SHOP WINDOW
CRUSH IN DUNEDIN Dunedin, This Dayk Evidently attracted by an announcement that certain articles which had been almost unprocurable for some muj,iths would be on sale, a crowd of several hundred shoppers assembled outside McKenzie’s store in George street. Dunedin, yesterday, and so great was their keenness to take advantage of the rare opportunity that they pushed through a plate glass window. A woman received a painful scratch, and minor damage was done to stock included in a window display. The shoppers were tightly packed in the doorway, and it is difficult to understand how they escaped being injured when the plate glass against which they were being pressed by those on the footpath coU lapsed in splinters under their weight. Goods such as cups, saucers, enamelware and fully fashioned hose which have been difficult to procure for some months, attracted the crowd. Within a few minutes of the doors being opened practically all the china and enamel waft had been purchased.—P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 27 November 1942, Page 4
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