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Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 304, 5 September 1929, Page 6

| The joke of the day in Sydney i (says the correspondent of the Mell bourne Argus) is surreptitiously to I slip into the lapel of the coat of a friend a fragment of white paper. Any man with a piece of white paper i thus displayed is identifiable as one l who is opposed to the high prices of , potatoes. Miss Portia Geach, the energetic president of the Housewives’ Association, issued a manifesto calling upon all men who supported a boycott to stand fast with their wives in counteracting the machinations of the potato wholesalers by displaying evidence of sympathy. She knew that it would be easy to tear off the margin of the morning paper sfnd place it in the coat lapel, and she proclaimed that that would be sufficient for the purpose. The potato war has disposed of the rival housewives’ association. It consid- ; ered that Miss Geach was bringing j housewives into contempt by driving ! through the streets showing a placI ard intimating her association’s sen- [ timents towards potatoes and potato i vendors, and it gave strong expression to the thought, but there was a J rallying to Miss Geach’s standard. I The war brightened up at once. 1 “ Eat turnips, carrots and dried I beans and peas,” is the order. It is said that many are obedient.