CORRESPONDENCE

Hutt News, Volume 16, Issue 39, 24 March 1943, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE

Sir, —At the present time when the most frequent topic of conversation —apart from the Avar —is that of the exorbitant charges made for the ordinary requisites of the working man's table I l'eel that in Lower Hutt we are not getting the attention we should. I attended a meeting of women held recently in Lower Hutt to protest against the high cost of commodities and all we got out of it is abuse from people in high places who have little or no sympathy with our trouble. They pre-j fer to throw a smoke screen around the undoubted scandal which exists,! by referring to us as Communists, Tories. Half Wits, or any other abusive term which they think will hurt us. 1 for one am not awarei

that there were any Communists at that meeting, but if there were, does the law of the land forbid them from voicing their opinionsi in a just cause? Ido know that many of the

women present were" wives of men who fought in the last war and mothers of sons who are fighting in this war, and that is more than„ can be said for some of the people in high places who turn a deaf ear to the complaints of we women, because the day is not far distant when their voice will be heard in no uncertain manner and women's franchise will have a real significance for those women who are being scorned. A friend of mine paid 3/10 for two pounds of fish for a sick daughter, and another paid 1/for a New Zealand orange for her baby.r—l am etc., i * 'CHATTERBOX."