THE SOWERS REAP
Sir,—ln News of the Day this morning you report the district man-power officer as speaking of the shortage of female labour and mentioning that there is practically no domestic help offering either for town or country positions. Why? There is no matter for wonderment. Years and long years of work for very long hours—early and late; indifferent, comfortless quarters; no daily time free for recreation of any kind; poor wages—these have been the seeds sown of which to-day’s predicament for would-be mistresses is the natural harvest. Let us, even at so late a day, mend our ways. Let us begin, not so much to search for a “ new order ’’ as to try out thoroughly the good old, much neglected, golden rule to fit us then for the next step, the new order. —I am, etc., M. P. Dunedin, October 2.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT19451003.2.13.1
Bibliographic details
Otago Daily Times, Issue 25964, 3 October 1945, Page 3
Word Count
143THE SOWERS REAP Otago Daily Times, Issue 25964, 3 October 1945, Page 3
Using This Item
Allied Press Ltd is the copyright owner for the Otago Daily Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Allied Press Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.