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“Big Business Turnover” advocates ( the establishment of hostels for women. The writer states that the only persons who are enjoying unrestricted private enterprise in New Zealand are the owners of properties, who “are reaping a rich harvest at the nerveracking expense of the business workers in general who are forced to accept room accommodation in private homes or semi-apartment houses. . . Yes, build State houses for the financial family, man who is in a position to pay for such a home, but what of the thousands of single folk, even single middle-aged folk, who must fend for themselves without State advice or aid in securing suitable accommodation?” “E/isgusted Wife,” discussing the Milk Distribution Board, thinks Mr Bliss is quite in the right, especially about his son. “I believe,” she writes, “that if the producer-vendors had given a little more consideration to their partners, namely, their wives, who do a man’s job every day of the year from dark to dark, rain, haih or snow, it would not have gone so far as it has. . . . Why do they not make it a general board for butchers, bakers, and pastrycooks?”
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Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23053, 22 June 1940, Page 17
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