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Too Busy to Help In another part of the country, seven-year-old Wiki is just home from school with a newsletter for her parents. Mum looks up from the stove. “Put it on the mantlepiece and get yourself changed. You can feed the fowls and get me some kumara.” Wiki then has to feed the little ones and put them to bed. After tea there are clothes to be ironed for school tomorrow. About eight o'clock she brings out her homework and settles down by the fire. “Mum, what are savings banks?” Wiki has to give a morning talk next day. “Don't they ever teach you anything at school? I'm too busy to tell you now.”

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Te Ao Hou, June 1965, Page 49

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Too Busy to Help Te Ao Hou, June 1965, Page 49

Too Busy to Help Te Ao Hou, June 1965, Page 49