SHOPPING SCHEME
Delivery Of Foodstuffs Planned In Sydney
A former New Zealander, Mrs. Keg. Bettington, is one of a committee of Hurling i’oinf. housewives which is planning a co-operative society for the delivery of foodstuffs to homes in that part of Sydney. Mrs. Jessie Street, who is aetiugpresident of the United Associations of Women and n prominent feminist, presided at :i meeting convened to discuss the scheme and explained its object. "The carrying of heavy parcels of groceries, green-groceries and meat is injurious to the health of older women and of women with young children,’’ said Mrs. Street. The idea, therefore, is that the food will be picked up by hired carters from tho shops with which housekeepers deal in the neighbourhood, a minimum household charge of 2/- a week being suggested for this service.
Tn the meantime, two enterprising young people from Malaya have started a shopping service, which they call the
Peggie and Topsy War Workers’ Errand Service. -logging along in u light horsedrawn cart and practically garbed iu bib and brace overalls, they undertake to do the whole family shopping and deliver it for 5/-.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 99, 21 January 1943, Page 2
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188SHOPPING SCHEME Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 99, 21 January 1943, Page 2
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