Taking it Easy

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 48, 1 March 1946, Page 8

Taking it Easy

While business folk in the Strand were rushing energetically about their work yesterday we noticed a pair of contented looking pussies surveying speculatively a comfortable chesterfield which had been placed outside a local shop whilst room was made for it inside. Sure the next time we cast a glance, in that direction there they were sprawled out on the chesterfield in the sun ; and. watching with a puzzled the rest of the populace hurrying by. Women’s Bathing Costumes

-“Women seeking to buy a smart ? colourful woollen bathing costume are doomed to disappointment not only in Wellington and Auckland 9 but throughout New Zealand/’ says the current issue of the New Zealand Draper and Allied Retailer. “One leading Wellington store has reported that the large demand for women’s bathing suits this year could not be met by a quarter. The shortage of bathing costumes prevails throughout New said a Wellington ..manager. No bathing costumes have been made in any quantitj" for six or seven years, and for the last three years practically nothing has come from the the. small supply available being nothing like enough to meet the demand. As regards men’s ? boys’ and girls’ swim suits the position is worse than that of the women’s j and the few that we do get arc. sc?s'J| within a few minutes of being displayed on the counter.”