DOMESTIC LABOUR ON FARMS
Housewives in town who know the present difficulty in obtaining: domestic help in the home, will sympathise with their less fortunate sisters in the country districts, who in spite of the greatest urgency are faced with complete hopelessness of being able to obtain assistance. The position is the more aggravated bjg the fact that owing to the shortage of male labour, the farmer's wife as often as not finds it necessary to assist in the farmwork as well as doing her own tasks in the home. But the case of the over-wrought mother of a large family who in order to escape a complete nervous collapse unless she is given a let up presents a very serious position which must be met unless we are to penalise once again the long suffering mothers of these' times. There are cases in this district which for sheer pathos and tragedy would astound many of our comfortably "good people' who enjoy their leisure and recreation at will. What can we do to help the overworked country mothers in these hard days?
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 208, 4 September 1940, Page 4
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182DOMESTIC LABOUR ON FARMS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 208, 4 September 1940, Page 4
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