It is said that holiday clothes will cost us more. One of the proposed new taxes is to be levied on transactions between wholesalers und re-{ailers and of course the public will have to pay that. "If the Chancellor of the Exchequer can get the tax into Working order say by the middle of July, he hopes {0 score out of the holiday clothes. workers of Lancashire. In one factory they found 1,100 women at work, in another 1,200'and s0 on. Some firms which used to do quite different work in peace time have switched over to war undertakings, and they have switched over their girl workers too with very little difieulty. The nature of the work that their Majesties saw has not of course been divulged. But we are told that much of it is the sort of thing that women would once have been considered quite unable to handle. Yet they manage it with skill and efficiency.
There Is now an increasing demand for land girls as more and more land comes under cultivation. Last week number of girls who had gone to the land from Poplar went back and gave a sort. of demonstration all round the streets of their old home to attract recruits. They took along Some waggons and farm horses, with pieces of light farm machinery which they made a show of working on the waggons. They all dressed them. selves very smartly in their land uniforms. It was quite a little Lord
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