Apart from the luxuries of exist ence like eggs and and red currants and medlars, the Purchase "Tax. in. eluded inthe new Budget will add 'A Lorry Load of Cheerfulness These girls are new arrivals at one Depots.' They do. the work which talien ano thi Yeo release them of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force would otherwise have to ye done for work which can be done by atone. ter there is something like a dearth, Seemingly it is something to do with the distribution as, while some quarters say they have no exis, others have plenty, though 2/9d. dozen' makes housewives. shake their 3d. in the shilling to the cost of many necessities. I believe that the Gov: ernment reverses these terms, but every woman will know what I mean, when she reads this list of articles which will be charged the extra 2d heads, "Another explanation is. that the shops say they cannot afford to stock eggs at the price they. have to to the wholesalers, which, when allowance has to be made for broken fr had eggs and what are vaguely called "overheads." leaves them profit. However, strange to say. we have confidence in Lord Woolton, the Food Controller, to put things right. Faith in any Ministry is so rare, es: peeiatly when it is the one in charge 2 food, "that it must be put respect of fruit there is unques-Hionshty a lot of profiteering: One of Lipsticks and other cosmetics; dance seacke and shoes cocktail sults, ehiifon bultontohs: trimmings ping shakes powder howls, trinket
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