Shopping Bureau
p. 64 · Read in the full issue
“Dorothea,” who conducts this column, is prepared to carry out, for Islands readers, any shopping requirements.
Simply write to “Dorothea,” c/o. “Pacific Islands Monthly,” P.O. Box 3408R, Sydney, and state your needs. She will do her best to carry out your wishes and please you.
Recently she sent, to the order of one of our readers, delightful pottery to New Guinea, from the pottery shop in Rowe Street —quaint tea pots, casserole dishes and jugs. Some of the goods were from the kilns of the clever Holden sisters — the name Holden being famous on the goldfields. By last mail, she had another order from the Territory from “one who had seen the lovely goods.”
To a mere man, “Dorothea” sent one of the special Virtue rainproof woven silk lumber zipp. fastener jackets. He radiod a repeat; and last week he wrote: “Gee, it’s a beauty—was offered a fiver for it.”