DEFENCE OF MODERN GIRL.
Sir Kingsley Wood, the British Post-master-General, recently strongly defended the modern girl. Speaking at the annual prize-giving of Pitman’s College, he said that jaundiced observers attacked young women and asserted they were chiefly employed in drinking cocktails in night clubs. Sir Kingsley said: “The youngwoman of to-day is no longer a clinging vine of the mental inferior and the dutiful handmaid of mere man. But she is self-reliant, tenacious, and courageous, and is taking her part more than ever in the world’s work. During i the next ten years there will be rnany new leaders in commerce, politics and religion.’’ The Minister added: “I do not doubt that the younger generation will provide men and women able to rise to any emergency as the British people in the past have always done. It is quite conceivable that they may do even better than their parents.’ s ‘
shop, has taken out a summons for defamation of character against the “lucky winner,” and is claiming a large sum in damages.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19750, 17 March 1934, Page 11
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172DEFENCE OF MODERN GIRL. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19750, 17 March 1934, Page 11
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