PUBLIC OPINION

Taranaki Daily News, 18 September 1940, Page 8

PUBLIC OPINION

views on current topics emergency helpers (To the Editor.) Sir,— I see by your paper that a band of young women have been trained and equipped (or have equipped themselves) for any emergency. All honour to them, and their photographs showed them looking very smart and very efflcient. Now, until any emergency occurs, may I suggest that they take up a work right at their doors. It is to help the women on the farms. - What I suggest needs no training. Every young woman can scrub, wash, cook, clean windows, patch and darn, and iron. The farm women, who have had five years of hard training, are quite capable of handling a lorry, to top-dress, harrow, bring in ensilage and hay, to milk, tend sick stock, shepherd, look after poultry, bees and orchards, and every phase of production. The fact that they have had five years of this means that many women are at breaking point and need assistance in their homes. How about it? Not spectacular, I admit, but very necessary.— I am gtc « "ONE WHO WENT THROUGH THE MILL DURING THE LAST WAR." Waverley, September 15.