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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 195, 13 May 1920, Page 3

i.u*® Auckland meeting, of' women i held to protest-ngainst the high prices of i • commodities, one' of the Speakers, lira. | LA • urged, that personal eflort be made towards increasing the sun. s ply of commodities. The talk of to-day, | she said, ivas all of production: but in 3 • wat connection everyone swmcd to look 6 to the large factories and the farmers to ? do the producing. Personal effort in the , way- of producing vegetal/les and fruit, in i the keeping of poultry, of a cow where there was space enough, or a goat or a a pig, might in its cumulative' effect do I much good. Then, if. women busied their I hands in the way they wero accustomed ?! to during the war, much more might be I effected than appeared at first "sight. Knit- J tln ff' So ™JKi. crocheting', even'.: spinning I would all do some good. Her advice was \ to order fewer supplies, and. to be ab- £ Bolutely certain that they bought nothing 5 that was not. a'bsolutely necessary. • \ Lace-making, as a .'profitable and inter- | esting occupation for the spare time was 5 sugfrFstcd to the "women present at a I meeting held at Auckland on Monday to . consider ( the present era of high •prices. I It was suggested that peoplo irom Not- h tinghamshive could bo foyiid to net as z teachers, and if those took up the ! occupation did not themselves noetl the S laco they produced they could easily sell |