HOUSEHOLD EQUIPMENT

Evening Star, Issue 26091, 3 May 1947, Page 11

HOUSEHOLD EQUIPMENT

LATEST CANADIAN WASHER Referring to the usual New Zealand household copper as resembling “a medieval instrument of torture,” Aliss Agnes Ireland, third secretary at the office of the High Commissioner for Canada in New Zealand, made a large audience of women sigh wishfully, when she described the latest Canadian electric washer, which washes clothes, rinses twice, and then semi-dries them in about 50 minutes. This housewife’s dream has recently come on to the Canadian market at a price equivalent to approximately £65 in New Zealand currency. Even after the detailing of such a desirable household “ gadget,” one woman was not satisfied. “ What about blueing?” she asked. It appears that Canudan women do not find it necessary to blue their clothes very often, and never boil them except under exceptional circumstances. The only two words which were completely foreign to her in New Zealand, she said, were “bach” and “copper.” She had seen two of the latter now, both the kind one . had to build a fire underneath, and neither had "any kind of drain pipe, So that the water had to be bailed out. Aliss Ireland described among new household equipment an iron which could be regulated in temperature according to the type of material being ironed, and a self-polishing floor wax, practically a liquid, which dried very quickly when applied to floors, making polishing unnecessary. Pressure cookers were gaining in popularity •in Canada, particularly with business women, because food that would normally take three-quar-ters of an hour to cook could be done in about 15 minutes on a pressure cooker.