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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 10086, 27 September 1918, Page 6

Mrs Edith Searlo Grossman urge* women to interest themselves' in electric cower schemes. “The use of electricity in our homes might do more than any other projects yet brought forward to lessen the housewife’s burden in these days of no servants and ■many wants. In AraericanAcities all the-heaviest routino“f’asks of-the household are performed by its aid—washing, ironing,, cooking, cleaning, lighting, heating, etc. —with an obvious gain of ease and cleanliness. The ‘domestc labour problem’ is ns serious as any other labour trouble, and there is perhaps no eountrv where it is felt more acutely than New Zealand, and every woman who helps to promote a practical working scheme for using our liTdro-elertrio power" is doing a. good thing for herself and her sister women.”

Speaking of the Spanish influemsa which is reported to lie very (prevalent in England, the London “Weekly Dispatch” eaid . that’ > a number o* fishln.6 vessels which'deft Grimsbv one'day had to return the' next day because their erews were suffering from the complaint. At ore .West End theatre every chorus sr'rl using one large ('raising room bad been affected, and the room had been quarantined.' Many houses were spraying their premises with disinfectant and providing their employees with' doses of quinine.

Gorman newspapers are rapidly going out of existence in America!-