JEWELLERY BAN
NO ENGAGEMENT RINGS
Most jewellers estimate that engagement rings will net be obtainable within about six months in Australia. The Federal Government has banned manufacture of all jewellery except wedding rings, and manu facturing jewellers are switching over to making precision instruments for the Army and Air Force. The president of the New South Wales Feminist Club, Mrs T. A. Cameron, says she thinks girls will be willing to accept other tokens in lieu of engagement rings. "An engagement ring is an out!wW;'d sign that a girl is interested in one particular man. That is all," she said. "The sooner we get down to a full war footing, the sooner we shall have the men back with engagement and wedding rings/' Miss Rae Geddes, an official at a hopitality hut for girls in the auxiliary services, said she thought £»irls Avould not worry. Many were marrying members of the fighting forces: who could not afford engagement rings on their pay. Retail jewellers report a heavy f.nli on wedding rings, even on the plain bands, which had been unfashionable in recent years. There has be,en a rush to buy watches and alarm clocks, supplies of which are limited.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 63, 10 June 1942, Page 2
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