WOMEN REPLY TO MISS HOWARD: SHOPPING BURDENS
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, July 19, A statement by the Minister of Health, Miss M, Howard, in Parliament on Friday that the contention that today women were packhorses was nothing more than a bogey was challenged today by Mrs, F. F. Gilmore, president of the Wellington Housewives’ Association.
Mrs. Gilmore said that both Dr. Doris Gordon and the Plunket Society had pointed out that the carrying home of heavy and bulky parcels was having a very deleterious effect on the health of expectant mothers, the mothers of young infants and young mothers of child-bearing age.
“In 1910 the Government passed legislation prohibiting the delivery of foodstuffs and, with the exception of a few weekly supplies of groceries, meat and bread, deliveries have not been universally resumed though it is three years since the war ended,” said Mrs. Gilmore.
She added: “To compare hilly Wellington with Christchurch is just too absurd,” she said. "If all women’s organisations would band together the necessary reforms would be more speedily accomplished.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22694, 20 July 1948, Page 6
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