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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 547, 9 July 1920, Page 1

There was a spirited outburst of applause at a public meeting in Wellington called by the Women s National Council when a sturdy matron —after listening to various suggestions for ensuring pure and cheap food—rose in the body of the audience and remarked: "The whole trouble is that the men run the whole show, and won't give women a chance!" She added that when Wellington was young wheelbarrows and baskets were often resorted to by tradesmen in the house- to-house delivery, and they made no bones about doing this service. Nowadays the tradesmen lolled back in automobiles when delivering goods, and in many cases refused to carry their wares to the householder's door. Times had indeed changed. Let the women perform this and other services, and keep the men at home to carry out the housewives' manifold duties." The short and long-tailed bats are protected absolutely in the Rotorua Acclimatisation District.