HOUSEWIVES’ STAND
FOR BETTER SHOPPING CONDITIONS WELLINGTON, Jan. 28 Two hundred Wellington women, some of whom carried their own chairs to the hall, met on Saturday afternoon from 1.45 till four o’clock and discussed present day shopping conditions, including closing hours, shortages, prices- and lack of deliveries. They then formed themselves into a new independent nonparty, non-political Housewives’ Association. The chairman (Mi’s. J. Henderson) said the Association should be a valuable force for the good of the community. “We have realised for a long time,” she said', “that the legislation enacted in the last two years has benefited certain sections and has meant sacrifice to other sections, a heavy burden to persons able to stand it. After all, the core of New Zealand is the mother in the home (Applause). Our attitude is not adverse to the 40-hour week, but we do not want one or two powerful groups to get it all their own way.”
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Grey River Argus, 29 January 1946, Page 6
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