1944 Sydney Morning Herald

[Mechanic]

https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/collection-items/sydney-morning-herald-typesetters-preparing-paper-news-rather-advertisements

[listohan]

White-collar workers. These jobs all gone.

[listohan]

What would the paper cost and what would advertisements cost if technology had not moved on? And what would those humble functionaries, not to mention the army of onlookers be earning? Paper rationing was probably still in place.

Is it any wonder the houses whose sales they were announcing cost more now?