MOVING IN WAR TIME

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 January 1943, Page 6

MOVING IN WAR TIME

BESET BY DIFFICULTIES IN BRITAIN. Moving in war time (writes a sufferer in the “Manchester Guardian”) is one of those things that nobody would undertake unless compelled, but it certainly has aspects of adventure unknown in happier circumstances. Standardisation has not reached the point at which what “does” for one house or flat can be expected to “do’ equally well for another, and there are times when even the most earnest of “make-doers” has to admit that it is necessary to find something new. Then begins the great hunt. Can material for curtains be found which will not shout angrily at existing carpets? X and Co. have it at what seems an outrageous price, but X and Co. have only ten yards of it left and the most frugal calculation demands twelve yards. Is it worth while taking the ten yards and hoping to find the balance elsewhere? The shop assistant maintains an attitude of aloof patience while the customer tries to decide. Y and Co. have the right quantity, but could we ever get used to it or should we have to sit teeth on edge every evening for the rest of our lives? Wild surmise whether it might be better to try to buy a new carpet which would “go” with the new curtain materials. Someone says that “of course” we could sell the old carpet, but the chances are that we should learn anew the wide gulf between wanting to sell and wanting to buy.