FRANTIC SCRAMBLE
SHOPS MOBBED IN SYDNEY. ATTEMPT TO BEAT CLOTHES RATIONING. SYDNEY, May 10. In a frantic scramble to beat the clothes rationing, men, women and girls mobbed Sydney’s big stores yesterday, queueing up long before the shops opened and disorganising traffic as they stvarmed from store to store and buying so heavily that numbers of shopkeepers were obliged to close their doors some time before the normal closing time. Exhausted assistants, in a state of despair, found that customers were not prepared to haggle over the price or quality. Anything was readily accepted that came near requirements. Buying Avas not even confined to essentials. Counters displaying art jewellery, hangbags and feather trimmings, Avere besieged by shoppers, six to eight deep. Banks were packed Avith. women with shopping cases and baskets, eager to withdraw their money. Several stores were practically sold out of Avoollen dress-lengths and were compelled to display mostly linen and silk materials.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 May 1942, Page 2
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