"KILLING OUR WIVES!"

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24, 28 July 1911, Page 9

"KILLING OUR WIVES!"

Don't) bo the first to qunrrel— nor tlio pecond.

DOMESTIC PROBLEM. Mr. M'Queen (Southland), speaking ab the Farmers' Union Conference yesterday, said : "We are killing otir wives, we are killing them with overwork. I have been months without a servant. This is a really serious national menace, this dearth of setvaiits. Our women are sweated, overworked, and some of them are killed for want of female help." Tho conference resolved-*— "That in view of the great difficulty in obtaining domestic servants . in the country, the Government bo urged to adopt a scheme for bringing ont suitable female labour." Mr. Hocklsyheld that it was high time steps wer<» takon to relieve the acute situation that had arieeti. The strength and constitution of the mothers was being undermined for the want of domestic help. Future generations must suffer most severely through the great strain on the mothers in New Zealand to-day. Mr. Campbell (Wanganui) held an opposite view. Luxury was more responsible for deterioration of the tact- than hard work on the part of the mothers. Mr. llockley r There is a distinction between hard Work and overwork. Mr. J W. Jones (Taranaki) remarked that if tiie men worked half as hard as the women nafl to woik the* would be killed. The situation was mos-t acute. Mothers of families were suffering most severely in health for want of help. Mr. Makgill (Auckland) complained of waiting four months for help and that in vain.

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