For every 10 vacancies for resident domestic servants registered at London labour exchanges, only one girl could be found to accept such work. “How many seconds are there in a minute. Kenneth?” asked the school teacher. “Do you mean a Real minute, miss." he replied, “or one of your wait-a-minutes?”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 June 1938, Page 7
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