MERRY GO ROUN? OF CHRISTMAS

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5282, 19 December 1946, Page 4

MERRY GO ROUN? OF CHRISTMAS

FRENZIBD SHOPPINC THINGS TO SEND AN] THINGS TO EAT 1 IGhristmas comes but onfl year, and, thank goodness I that, is the thought tha« uppermost in most peoM minds as the great day difl nearer. With only a week tcl the town yesterday preseB one of those hot Friday afl noon appearances, as ha J housewives rushed around fl shop to shap, trying to fmd I that weren't' there to senl friends and relatives whoB doing the . same all over ■ Zealand, fl With the temperature at ■ 73 degrees, a pramful of little ifl and parcels, and little Horace pfl madly in the opposite directionM Jones had had another toughB Never mind, she says to hersel® all be over this time next weefl we'll he able to settle do\vn M That's what she thinks! She'lB have the washing-up to do. ■ But Mrs. Jones is not the onfl who is having rather a heavy tfl it these days — not by a longfl The shopkeepers who are 8 madly to sell her somethinB doesn't wa-nt when she asks fo8 things they haven't got are haB tough time, too. And then,B they have succeeded in selliiB something and she's taken itB and wrapped it up and put fl card inside, the Post OfficeB charge and sees that it gets toB in Christchurch in time for B mas. B J The Post Office is having fuB days. From the moment thB open in the morning until thfl with a sigh at 4 p.m., the officB figuratively flat out. WhereB two or three clerks attended S ® leisurely needs, now four tfl 5 freely as they handle the hifl s of parcels handed in each dayfl ' * b j Mail Increases 400 Per (S And what abcut the otherB 0 it as well? People are rB. ^ parcels as well as sending thB ,g many of the parcels are far B g. for the postmen to cairy aB have to go round and pick t!B 1 The postmen has quite encB ^ ! keep his bags full anywajB j.Q estimated that the mail has riB ^ ' per cent in the last week. ThB ge surprising,* considering all thB ^ ■ mas cards that one receivB ^ people who never write at alB ^ the year. B r * In this helter-swelter of gB' ing ' and larder stocking B Great Day, one is apt to foB people who will be working ■ as ever when it comes. ThejH r\ i worker of the lot will he • doubt the housewife. WhilB Ye and the family hang around* waiting for the feast, Moths* : getting hotter and hotter inH j chen and secretly more and B N tempered. I Whe j When she finally does uB Pilo gTeatest dinner of the y® land won't feel in the least bit li® D.F. • any of it. ■ unce Essential, but Unrecogi® dead ! Then think of the .thouB men, -and women all over B land who will still be caB ' e, their everyday j'obs sothatB L try's essential services B • , smoothly. The hospitals wB -tte : of people who don't g^B n(f suddenly just because it is B ^econ 1 When you want to ring B as Smith and wisb her the eoiB Canie of the season, the g'irl whoB gazeti your number isn't exactly >'B heen brightest of times. All y0UjB aPan radio announcers will still bB te wj cheers over the ether but tH ahout 365 days of the year. TlieB tiore - the hus driver, the engine _ Sinc all he at their posts. The B ^quiri that you read on Boxing 1B ^esult. ing will be largely coiup®B that h: Christmas Day digestion. B from I There are many others B decorai Christmas will mean i"sB annour day in the year — a day shgB day depressing than other dayB his op of the lack of the usual m exceptj able hustle. B , ,