RESTRICTED HOURS
FOR CLOTHING ANO SHOE SHOPS POLICY & PANIC BUYING IN AUSTRALIA, MINISTER DEFENDS HIS ACTION. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Restricted trading hours for retail shops were forecast by Mr Dedman (Minister of War Organisation) to check the rush buying in clothing and shoe stores which ' yesterday reached new and fantastic proportions. Mr Dedman said the buying rush had been inevitable. The rush was already on when the Government announced its intention to restrict trading. Replying to suggestions that the restrictions would benefit the wealthy, the Minister said it was logical to assume that the poorer section of the community, rather than the wealthy, was buying more clothes, because the money paid to wage-earners was greater than ever before, whereas the incomes of the wealthy had been cut down, particularly by his Government. Unfortunately it was impossible to introduce rationing cards immediately, but it was essential, before rationing could be introduced, to conserve a pool of clothing on which a rationing system could be based. Bearing these things in mind, it was clear that the method adopted by the Government was the only one suitable. After conferences with the Retail Traders’ Association and the Assistants Union yesterday, Mr Dedman said the Government > would announce new shopping hours when the whole question of rationed goods and manpower had been considered. The Minister said the Government did not intend to prohibit a continuance of the lay-by system, but he thought shops which could sell goods for cash would probably end the system without instruction.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 May 1942, Page 4
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