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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10289, 26 May 1919, Page 6

Dr Flora Murray, of the Endoll street Military Hospital, had often heard it said that during tho last twenty to twenty-five years the physique of women had improved, but she says this was only a class improveimont, and there had not been a geneIral improvement until tho'" last few years, whon women had been able to draw a wage which allowed them to feed themselves decently. Iu the ranks of tho Q.M.A.A.C. ther& are robust ■ and really healthy girls, but these aro usually: found to be girls ot a higher class, while the average of those from the villages and the towns hoar signs of bad housing and underfeeding. Every effort must me made to deliver from the city restaurant tho hundreds of thousands of girls whose crying need is proper food at good ■prices. What is 'wanted is a hostel w4iore there is liberty with discipline, and where there is a strong esprit do corps. iNoihing is so'muen needed in I/ondon as a suitable hostel for girk between .sixteen and twenty, a respectable, honest place, whero they could lodgo with safety. One of the grcvat. discoveries of tho ago is tho very little work done and the amount of creature comfort and leisure enjoyed by many well-paid men t (says a writer in an English papei"). The woman who braced herself to bear the burden of a man for the front" often found to her astonishment that/ she could discharge her new duties in less time and with far less labour then she had been giving to some dull drudgery thai hud paid h«. a third as veil.