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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9619, 27 March 1917, Page 2

An insurance canvasser states that not all of the stories as to the affluence and extravagance of munition workers are founded on fiction. Business took him lately to the West of Scotland, and in the humble homesof "mechanics" he found, ho says, an extraordinary profusion of pianos. In the old days the sitting: rooms of the workers had tv.-o of everything ornamental—two pictures, two vases, two antimacassars, two china dogs, and so on. According to the canvasser. they have now two t pianos; and ho further- asks one to accept as accurate that in the kitchen of an iron puddler he saw a baby grand, on which was displayed the family washing, kept in .positions by a couple o£ flat irong.