Marked swing to automatic washing

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31320, 16 March 1967, Page 10

Marked swing to automatic washing

A recently published statistic shows that fully automatic washers are now favoured in many N.Z. homes. This indicates a new era for N.Z. housewives is in view a new era already being enjoyed by those who are no longer tied home on washdays. Today more and more New Zealand women enjoy the labour saving benefits of an automatic washing machine. For these women the arduous chores of washday have been eliminated. Now all they need do is load their machine, set it and forget it, and go about whatever other tasks the day may have in store. What is an 'automatic? Briefly .... a machine that washes without supervision. Automatic washers of the earliest design were usually rather cumbersome, requiring bolting down to the floor as well as expensive plumbing. Now, however the modern automatic with its sleek functional design has overcome all this. It is free-standing (no bolting down required) and plumbing is simple and inexpensive. To the housewife it means a ‘dry hands’ wash day. Proven reliability One outstanding ‘automatic’ has proved its efficiency and dependability. Designed and tested in the U.S.A., then modified and re-tested in New Zealand, the result is an automatic which the manufacturers are convinced is fit to carry The world’s most trusted trademark’. It is based on the best-proved washing method the 4bladed agitator. This ensures action which is gentle but thorough by moving water through the clothes, rather than clothes through the water. The HAfV Mastermatic fully automatic home laundry is N.Z.’s top selling machine of its kind. It protaises you years of easier washdays as it has provided for thousands of lucky owners in years gone by . . .