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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12082, 10 August 1917, Page 7

Thousands of business and professional men in Knglnnd vho have enlisted have transferrer] their bank a>--lounts and cheque books to their v. ives While the husband is with the Army it. devolves upon the wife to manage and settle everything, rent, rate;, education, wages, household and all oilier bill-. f ; he also has to receive the husband's income and to pay i' mto the hank. Most of i[\p women who are now cheque signers never hefore had a banking account. Tint the manager of a big London bank said recently that his admiration for the capabilities of the war time woman has been heightened by the intuition fuid system sic displayed in tackling her absent husband's finances " Women," he said, "do not- make the mistakes and display the simplicity in financial affairs that, legend credited to them. They are very methodical in their banking. Woman customers pay in pH.-mpUy, and are. more attentive, to their pass books than many men. Itis verv seldom that women incur overdrafts."