FURNITURE BAN
Luxury furniture has been banned in Australia. Maximum prices have been fixed which rule it out and complete prohibition has been placed on the bathroom cabinet, bookcase, cocktail cabinet, deck chair fireside set, fire screen, floor or table standard electric lamp, garden seat, pot-plant stand or pedestal, writing bureau, any article of furniture manufactured of tubular steel. There will be no olaborate french polishing or overstuffed arm-chairs and lounges. Only moderately priced utility articles are permitted The idea is to divert skilled labour to the manufacture of aircraft and aircraft furnishings to save materials, to deter the refurnishing of homes and make more available to newly-weds. Last year there were 86.06/ weddings—an Australian record —and 282,000 since the war began.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 8 January 1944, Page 5
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122FURNITURE BAN Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 8 January 1944, Page 5
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