"GOING THE PACE."
WRONG USE OF LEISURE. CERTAIN PERCENTAGE ONLY. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Tuesday. When the comments made in Auckland yesterday by Dr. Lorna Hodgkinson concerning the rapid pace lived by young women were referred, to a local 'medico, he said they, were perfectly valid, though it should be stressed they were applicable to only a certain percentage of j'oung people of both sexes. In Dunedin, he said, there was a tendency among office girls and others employed in public institutions to put their leisure hours to wrong use. They frequently suffered nervous breakdowns, the strain in some cases proving fatal.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 292, 9 December 1936, Page 9
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