Hard-Working Women

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 8, 21 March 1947, Page 3

Hard-Working Women

One of the most indelible impressions that will be carried away by Mr Cosmo Gibson, a member of an Argentine stock and station firm, who has been visiting stud farms in the Dominion, is the effect of hard work shown on the faces of many New Zealand women on farms. Many of them, he told a reporter, seemed to be prematurely aged. Everywhere he had met with hospitality, but he said it had distressed him during the many times he had been invited to morning and afternoon tea in farm houses, to note the number of young women of 30 and 35 showing lines of care and hard work which might be the accompaniment of women several years their senior.

R.S.A. Membership Membership of the Christchurch Returned Services’ Association at present is 14,984, compared with 10,980 at the end of February last year. Christchurch is now second to the Auckland association, which has a membership of 18,265. American Opinion “I came to your country six months ago because I had heard so much about it and about your Government,” said Mrs H. A. Baxter, of Phoenix, Arizano, who is on a Dominion tour. “I love your country, but I have found that your Government is like that of most other countries—some like it, some don’t.”