CHILDREN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 91, 18 April 1941, Page 6

CHILDREN.

Tt anyone can tell m<? that by letting tho majority of children in Xew Zealand 20 without warm blankets, shoo-, an<l livp in hovcK we can help the war effort at all. well, w<? mothers of New Zealand would l>o thrilled to do m>. Many of He and our children went through the depression, and people lib , your correspondent ''Arise- and Shine -, arc blind to the fact tfiat not one "f tho inotlicrs made complaint until in our mi<!>t tlierc was bein<r planned, in war time. too. a clinic for birth control. If money can bo spared for such motlxT- thoiipht that it shoiil<l be sjioni on ilk' living children. "Arise. and shino" siv- wo should 'improve, not de-troy." \\V need to "build an.l iin l >i<i\ i>'' in a war time when our hotc!> are packed and racecourse? arc crowded, and our yoiiii? married people do not have to do anything but see how niiicii money they can make. All "iir C-.<l. and Sacrifices will be of n™ u-e or help unless wo lay the foundation r-ione for peace and improvement* in our own hoiiio- and country. Surely. wli.-n pifiou- money ipent on U*fli'-> ihinp.-. mother who have done ami .■n,. ilciinp niiiri m-eded war work rhouKl not ivf ju<l.so(] \M"«nplv when they wouM lather -re their babies with warm clothe- in-\\ when young, and not so without until th"y can a srini. MOTHER OF FIVE.