COMMODITY FAIRY TALES.
Sir,-After many growls and groans, shrieks and shudders, my radio has given up the ghost. I think it got ashamed of telling the same Fairy Tale, day after day and week after week, of some magical, but as far as I can discover, invisible powders and soap which make whites whiter, pinks pinker, and the housewife bluer and bluer as she trudges from one grocer to another, only to receive such answers as-‘Sorry" or "Never heard of it," or a bland look and "No more being imported." "So what about it? Couldn’t we be told, on alternate days, where these magical powders are to be found?
HOUSEWIFE
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 469, 18 June 1948, Page 16
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111COMMODITY FAIRY TALES. New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 469, 18 June 1948, Page 16
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