PANIC BUYING
CONTINUES IN SYDNEY Special Aus. Correspondent, N.Z.P.A. (Recd. 11.50 p.m.) Sydney, May 14. Buying continued for the filth day with unabated frenzy throughout Australia. In Sydney many big stores remained closed. Those whi opened sold their quotas in from 15 to 30 minutes. Most firms run advertisements in the newspapers asking the public to buy only for urgent needs. War work is being organised for staff members idle in rationed departments after the day’s quotas have been sold. Netmaking, knitting, first-aid lectures and fire-fighting training are some new leisure-time occupations for Australian shop assistants. “Abandon bodyline buying and play fair over clothes,” urges the Lord Mayou of Sydney, Alderman Crick. One large Sydney store had its doors closed to customers and displayed a large notice: “Travellers and manufacturers’ representatives with anything to sell us cordially admitted at any hour.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 111, 15 May 1942, Page 5
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141PANIC BUYING Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 111, 15 May 1942, Page 5
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