ONE WAY OF PAYING FOR A HOLIDAY
Received Wednesday, 7 p.m. LONDON, August 20. . A profitable trade in earpets whieli has enabled many British holidaymalcers in Belgiuni to pay for theix holidays out o.f their profits, has grovvn 1 up as tlie rcsult of the earpet shortage : in Britain and high prices paid foi 1 Tuikisli earpets which can be bought > -dieaplv in Belgiuni. British people oa i holiday are buving earpets for tho equivaletit of £6 in francs and even ; after paying duty and purchase tax, are i making 100 per cent. or more on the 1 re-sale of the earpets in Britain. The i trade has grown to such proportions i that the Ostend to Dover ferry steamer i ia iiow known a3 the carpet ship. J
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHRONL19470821.2.27
Bibliographic details
Chronicle (Levin), 21 August 1947, Page 5
Word Count
129ONE WAY OF PAYING FOR A HOLIDAY Chronicle (Levin), 21 August 1947, Page 5
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Chronicle (Levin). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in