MILITARY OBLIGATIONS OF MARRIED MEN
Sir, —I^ agree with your correspondent, Alfred Houghton, regarding the call-up of married men while so many single ones are remaining behind. Nobody's job is essential: everyone can be done without, no matter who he is. Another unfair aspect is the paltry pittance a wife is expected to manage on while land girls' wages are fixed at 35s to 42s 6d a week and all found. It seems to me most wives will have to get jobs to make ends meet. and. after all, why should they? In England the land girls are working for half the amount of wages they get in New Zealand and are doing this as a war effort to help their country.—Yours, etc., FAIR PLAY. January 13, 1942.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23538, 16 January 1942, Page 8
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