UNEMPLOYED WOMEN
"PREFER TO STARVE"
CLINGING TO THE CITY,
(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") PALMERSTON, This Day. "Quite frankly they prefer to hang around Wellington and. starve," said the Dominion president of the Women's Division of the Farmers' Union (Mrs. C. Jackson) at the bi-monthly meeting of the Bush Nurse and Housekeepers' Auxiliary of the union yesterday.
This startling statement was made when • the. question of unemployed women was discussed. It was stated that there were a thousand such in Wel; lingtpn,\and an appeal for help was received;
Mrs. Jackson stated that it had been suggested that country women might be willing to take some of these girls into their homes. The Dominion secretary had interviewed numbers of unemployed, but so far only two girls had accepted positions in the country. Quite frankly, they preferred to hang round Wellington and starve.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 95, 23 April 1931, Page 12
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