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WORKING IN BRITAIN'S WAR EFFORT. It’s no secret, as New Zealand war correspondent Robin Miller said in a 8.8. C. short wave broadcast, that Britain is just about at saturation point in the matter of the diversion of her manpower to the war effort. To bring home the fact to overseas listeners he told an amusing story. It was about, a man who was called over the coals by his foreman for arriving late at a war factory. This was the man’s explanation. His wife was in a war job too, but as she has to get to work earlier than he, it was his job to deliver their baby at its grandmother’s house. “But why,” the foreman demanded, “couldn’t you have taken the baby earlier?” “I did,” was the answer, “but the grandmother is on a night shift and I had to wait till she got home from work.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 February 1944, Page 5
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