WOMEN'S JOB

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 241, 12 October 1942, Page 5

WOMEN'S JOB

MUST WORK TOGETHER

LEARN TO DO WITHOUT "We are beginning to realise more than ever that this war is going to be a long business, and I am convinced that women must pull together more than they have ever done before," said Mrs. A. N. Grigg, M.P. for Mid-Canterbury, who is at present in Auckland.

Mrs. Grigg emphasised that women must accustom their minds to going without all sorts of things and take a pride in their ingenuity to invent ways and means to keep up the health of the nation. They had certainly been deprived of many things they were used to having, and would in the future be deprived of even more. Here was a great opportunity for them to use their intelligence. The pioneer women of New Zealand, said Mrs. Grigg, lived on very little, and yet contributed to the building up of a fine people. There was nothing wrong with the woman and girl of to-day. She could and would do what her grandmother did, and do it with intelligence and competence.

Food and clothing were essentials, but there was no luxury that could not be done without. There was no economy that the New Zealand woman to-day could not practise. New Zealanders throughout the world had been known for their resourcefulness and the ability to face up to things. The men had proved it in the fighting forces. The women on the home front could do the same.

Mrs. Grigg made an earnest appeal for all women to work together for victory. In these difficult days it was their special job to think out how to replace commodities instead of merely being annoyed at any privation.