THIS KNITTING
NEW ZEALAND’S DIFFICULTIES NOT PECULIAR. Apparently difficulties over knitting wool and needles are not peculiar to New Zealand, to judge by the following editorial in “The Times": —The truth, about knitting wool seems not wholly free of tangles. Every private knitter agrees that she cannot get the wool she wants, could not alTord it if she could get it. and would not be seen dead with the wool that she can get. The knitting needle position is scarcely brighter. No one will sell her a pair of knitting needles, and a pair of needles is no use for any of (he things she wants to knit for the Forces. And yet unprejudiced observation seems to report that knitting has not. been absolutely suspended. At any rate, in trains and omnibuses and other places where they sit; women have been seen going through the motions of knitting, and not with empty hands. Domestic experience confirms the suspicion that, no matter lhe difficulties or the expense, wool, is procured, needles arc found, or made up. in sets, and knit- i ting is openly practised.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1940, Page 2
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184THIS KNITTING Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1940, Page 2
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