WOMEN TO THE RESCUE.

Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19430, 3 December 1934, Page 9

WOMEN TO THE RESCUE.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—At last, in our hour of need, woman has come to our rescue. For nearly six months meetings, commissions, have heen held, and there are ■still further meetings ahead. The Minister of Finance, in four words, comprising in all 13 letters, has, in final' despair, asked: “What do you want?" to a deputation. Surely they could give an answer; but, no, they must hold further meetings. A lady from Waitakaruru is stated to have sat for six hours listening to —discussion, and wound up by saying, "You are like a lot of old women!" I have never to my knowledge seen the lady referred to, but I very much doubt if she can justly be called “an old woman.” She is evidently only voicing the opinion of hundreds of farmers’ wives whom, as a director of a dairy company stated recently at a Farmers’ Union meeting, “it is a wonder there has not been a revolution by the farmers' wives." What a pity the lady from Waitakaruru and others did not revolt when a recent war of cut prices (more especially down south) in local sales of butter was in operation. Fancy these women and their children milking in all weathers, early hours and late, and yet the man at the head of a large dairy company, supposedly looking after their interests, could under-cut competitive prices, as he stated later, “to prevent losing the goodwill of their butter business, which it had taken years to build up”—a feeble reply, no doubt, but confirmed later by his board. Quality always commands a premium. Don’t forget, it w r as the farmers’ wives who by the sweat of their brow r , lost that money—given away. It should be refunded.

Well done, champion from Waitakaruru I Next lime you attend a dairy meeting take more of your farm sisters and borrow the stockwhip, as it ts about the only thing that will knock sense into people who when asked “What do you want?” have no reply. "Bash them!”: —I am, etc., JOAN OF ARC. Hamilton, November 30, 1934.