GONE ARE THE DAYS
POSITION OF SWEET TRADE LITTLE STAFF NOW AVAILABLE Cone are the days when dapper and youthful salesmen urged j>roprietors of sweets shops to increase their window displays and stock up their shelves. Some of the reasons were embodied in quite a little dis-r course on the subject by a travelling representative, himself quite elderly, who was in Whakatane re-, cen fly. The Auckland firm lie represented. which used to employ between 350 and 40,0 girls, now had a staff of less than 100„ and not a single one of these was young. Old ladies between 50 and GO years came jto work at sweet-making at ten o'clock in the morning after having done their household duties. At three o'clock in the afternoon they left to go home and cook dinner. Old men of. the. same ages worked similar hours. "Not all the sugar in the world would make any difference to the sweets* position." the traveller explained. "This is all the labour we have and t-hey are doing their utmost. All the young people, have been taken for essential work or for the forces."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 23, 12 November 1943, Page 4
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