Women Take Miss Howard To Task
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WELLINGTON, July 19. - • A statement by the Minister. V oi-. Health (Miss Howard) in Parliament on Friday that tlie contention that to--day "women were packhorses, was nothing more than a bogey, was challehged today by Mrs. F. F. Gilmore, president of the Wellington Housewives' Associatiou. Mrs. Gilmore said both Dr. Doris Gordon and the Plunket Society had pointed out that the carrying homo of heavy and bulky parcels was liaviug n very deleterious effect on tlie health of expeetant motliers, mothcrs of yourig infants and young motliers of "the childbearing age. "In 1940 the Governnient passed legislation prohibiting the delivery or foodstuffs and with the exception of a few weekly supplies of groccries, meat aud brcad, deliveri'es had not boen universally resumed thougli it is three years since the war ended," said Mrs. , Gilmore. Sli'e added. f 1 To. eompare hilly Wellington with Christchurch is just too absurd." She said that if all women 's organisations would band tn-g-ether, the necessary ret'orms would more speedily be accomplislied.
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Chronicle (Levin), 20 July 1948, Page 3
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