WILL REMAIN BRITISH
SALVAGE SUGGESTION OPPOSED WOMEN AND GIRLS IN N.S-W. [ Per Press Association. ] SYDNEY, Sept. 13. Mr R. Love, chairman of the New South Wales Hospitals Commission, recently suggested the many hundreds of women, girls an(i youths might be profitably employed in salvaging unwanted household goods which are now sent to the rubbish tip. A mass meeting of unemployed women and girls to-day passed a resolution expressing disgust and indignation at. Mr Love’s suggestion that they should make scavengers of themselves- . “We think that a man drawing a salary of £l2OO a year should endeavour to. earn it in some more practical manner. Meanwhile, our Australian women by birth or adoption being British, intend to remain British.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 371, 15 September 1930, Page 7
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118WILL REMAIN BRITISH Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 371, 15 September 1930, Page 7
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