The wife of the proprietor of a country hotel lias very definite opinions regarding the ambitions of the modern girl. "I noticed in the paper' the other day,” she said, in conversation with a "Dunedin Star” reporter, “that an enormous number of replies had been received in answer to an advertisement for an usher in a theatre. Well, we in the country find it practically impossible to get, good domestic help. It seems to me that the girls of to-day will do anything except those duties for which they are naturally fitted. If they cannot procure' work in an office, or a shop, or a theatre, they don’t seem to want to work at all. This hotel, it should be added, is not in the backblocks, it is within 100 miles of Dunedin.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 February 1935, Page 14
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