ELECTRICAL HOMES
LABOUR-SAVING VISIONS Miss Caroline Haslett, C.8.E., director of the Women’s Electrical Association in England, has visions of electrical homes for women designed by women, says an overseas writer. Anyone with sufficient means can, nowadays, fit her house with all the electrical devices imaginable, and do so with the aid of the best advice obtainable. But Miss Haslett believes that for those less fortunately situated it is far more difficult not only to obtain, but to adapt electrical appliances for their needs. She is of the opinion that men have little knowledge of the problems of a woman in the house, especially of the woman with little or no assistance, and the Women’s Electrical Association is planning a big demonstration of its capacity to assist these women as a birthday celebration this year. For this all the working models will be designed and produced by women, and Miss Haslett thinks that with all the slum clearances now going on there is an exceptional opportunity to show how the cheapest house can be so designed that the woman who has to run it will have all the facilities' for lightening her work that science can supply.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19946, 2 November 1934, Page 12
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196ELECTRICAL HOMES Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19946, 2 November 1934, Page 12
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