CORRESPONDENTS' VIEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 168, 18 July 1941, Page 6

CORRESPONDENTS' VIEWS.

CRECHES (To the Editor) The City Council's decisional*, consider the establishment of Jfrj 6 cipal day nun-eries on the emS?" that two creches already Auckland are r,,t fully vSg®*® have come a- a snocX to wotS* mothers who are at their wit's know what t<» do with their SSk while they so to work. ThecouaSv: information as inaccurate as*, decision is ill-timed. There is cm? one all-<iay creche in Auckland-Si Grey's Avenue creche, run undert>l! au.-pices of the Church of Oj>en only to ih<- < hildren of woS mothers, n i- idled 10 capacity has a wanmp h»t. its capantT,, :;0 children. The Y.W.C.A. creche,? ferred to by the council is open ctfotwo days a week from 10.30 ajiLtii; } p.m . and so is useless to maStm who go out to work. In addition r is available only to wives of a»T hers of the fichting forces, jh lightly dismissing an appeal fnm mothers the City Council has shcrvrt not merely ignorance of the me position, but total lack of svrnpafiiv with the issues at stake. WaSTS facilities r or the care of very you™ children places j,n insuperable iarrier in the path of mothers who for economic or patriotic reasons wish to work. It presses particular]!heavily upon the soldier's wife Unt'ii the position is altered it isuselessts expeci women to play a fuller pan in the eouniry'.- war effort, and ait optimism to a>k for an increased birth rat« HOrSKWIVKS' COM., X 2 WOMKN S FOOD LEAGUE!