NEW ZEALAND HOUSEWIFES

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 165, 15 July 1941, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND HOUSEWIFES

As the mother of five children an« the owner of a large house wttohi 2K,ul a<si!C 'an«. 1 think I an entitled to reply l 0 Sir E*to drench s uncalled for assertions]* inewomen of X-v.- Zealand. Inftt first place, may 1 venture to assr. mat one of the main reasons the or families and houses are so small i; because of the lack of help in it bouse: therefore. the second pan o: -Sir Evelyn's tirade, in which btm we arc the hardest-worked wonwit me \\,,rld. answers the first audi is not considered economically mud to nave more children than one on afford. May ] Miggesi also that maw New Zoalanders don't indulge iatte heavy pre-war Englishman* brat last of porridge, bacon and egs. '"Ast and marmalade, and soon,iw. arc content with the despised on oi tea and a slice of toast. Xow.rc the dog versus babv question, I hare always understood the Englishman's doc is hi.> idol and ihat in the We* •ud of London, anvhow. there an very few perambulators to be «cr. Out one has to watch one's Step or. ino footpaths because of the Bote.tides of dogs that arc kept in flat l and are allowed out at night for their halfhour nan A PritKHUKn AXD BRIDGE- ! I'I.A VINCXE \v ZEALAXDER.