SELF-HELP URGED
UNENVIED LUXURY. < — A demand that all non-essential industries must be combed for manpower before key men are put into the Services received a novel and entertaining illustration from Lord Addison in the House of Lords recently, states a London correspondent. Speaking as a private Socialist peer, he called attention to a newspaper advertisement, wlhich stated: “Wanted, second footman and second parlourmaid; four in family; 13 servants kept, including four in the buttery.” He said: “I know that a number of your lordships suffer from the misfortune of inhabiting large houses which you wish to keep in a proper state. I have never been disposed to envy you in the least of these possessions; I have always felt that they must add enormously to the needless worries of life. I hope that the advertiser will, if he is not lucky in getting his second footman, practice a little self-help.”
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 62, Issue 4422, 7 May 1941, Page 4
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