THE FORTY-HOUR WEEK
Sir, —I quite concur with "Health First" that the present reluctance and refusal to work more than 40 hours per week is a sign of the physical deterioration of our people, or else it is a case of the body is willing, but the spirit is weak. In my youth say, 60 years ago, there was none of this nonsense, and we built a nation and made no fuss about it. I have seen farmers, gold miners and others working from dawn to dark at special seasons. Their wives worked equally hard, yet produced and reared large and healthy families; and they lind no fancy houses crammed with labour-saving gadgets. We- of to-day are a sadly degenerate people. It is a good job our predecessors built a nation. Septuagenahian.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23761, 14 September 1940, Page 15
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132THE FORTY-HOUR WEEK New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23761, 14 September 1940, Page 15
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