WOMEN'S POINT OF VIEW

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 252, 15 June 1932, Page 6

WOMEN'S POINT OF VIEW

"JUST A WOMAN."

(To the Editor) Sir, — My husband came home from the meeting last night in the frame of mind that your wife will appreciate, although you will not. When a man comes home full of the big, manly things he has been talking about with a number of business men, and of the important decisions they have made, a little tactful "pat on the back" and you ean get what you want out of him. Unfortunately, I had spent all the afternoon looking for some cheap winter clothing, and was in the wrong frame of mind. He told me haw the Railway Department were putting the lorry traffic .off the road, so as to give the monopoly to the goods train, and that „ the meeting had decided that the real idea was to put up the freight on goods to make the railways pay, ■ • because they could not- put up the fares on passengers, otherwise they simply would not travel on the trains. This seemed straightforward enough, but not very interesting. But he then said that the increased cost of freight on goods to Rotorua would not really worry him because he would simply pass it on to his customers. This really did arouse me, and I asked him if he appreciated that as his wife I was not only interested in the amount of groceries he could sell in his store, but I was very much more interested in what it cost me to feed and clothe my family. It then occurred to me that there was a silver lining in the cloud, and I told him that if prices were going up still higher in Rotorua I would now be able to get my new winter hat in Auckland. He asked me if I was mad, and said I lmew perfectly well it was difficult enough to find the money for a hat without thinking about trips to Auckland. So I told him that by getting the necessary winter clothing for the boys at the same time as my hat, the difference in cost would not only pay my return fare to Auckland, but would leave a little over for a very much needed holiJay. We women don't want to be forced to shop in Auckland, and it does seem to me that the women in Rotorua are more concerned in this matter than the men, and if so, we had better get together and decide. what we are going to do. I am etc.,