“The most depressed persons in the country at the present time,” said Mr W. A. Bodkin, M.P., in an address at New Plymouth, “are the wives of the working men, who are having a hard job to balance the household budget on the inadequate salaries of their husbands, which will not make ends meet because the money has riot the purchasing power.”
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Southland Times, Issue 23199, 14 May 1937, Page 6
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