SOME WOMEN’S SHOPPING PUTS THEIR HUSBANDS OUT OF WORK

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 614, 16 March 1929, Page 16

SOME WOMEN’S SHOPPING PUTS THEIR HUSBANDS OUT OF WORK

‘‘l wish I could make every New Zealand woman realise what a big responsibility she has when she goes out shopping,” said a prominent Auckland citizen recently. “I do . not mean only her responsibility to her own

family—l mean, as well, her responsibility for the welfare of the woman next door and the family over the

“You do not see how she can be responsible for that? But she is. The way she spends her money—her choice of goods—affects not only lier own family, but her neighbour’s. “Perhaps the husband of the lady next door to you is employed in the manufacture of jam, for instance. If you buy New Zealand jam, it helps to keep him and all his fellow-workers in employment. And those jam people, in turn, help to employ thousands of other workers, who make and sell the things the jam people use. “Now, if you buy a foreign jam, you take away that work from all those New Zealanders. They are the less prosperous and so have less money to spend on the thing your husband helps to make or sell.

Perhaps your neighbour’s husband has nothing to do with making jam —it may be soap, or leather goods, or brushware, or shoes—but the same thing applies. Whenever you buy a foreign article instead of a New Zea-land-made one, you are directly making someone here a little poorer and indirectly robbing yourself, too.”