“I noticed in a cable from Australia this week that there’s a shortage of perambulators in Brisbane. Well, I asure you it’s solemn fact that Britain’s Board of Trade has just issued a leaflet on pram maintenance! The leaflet gives detailed instructions for cleaning, oiling, and servicing the baby’s pram,, and warns mothers and nurses against wearing out the tyres on gravel, bumping the pram over curbs, and even jiggling it to and fro to stop the baby crying. It's funny, but it’s sound sense, because if prams in Britain wear out, there are no new ones to take their place. It’s to be hoped that when the babies now crying in their unjiggled prams grow up and inherit their new world; they will find it worth their infant sacrifices.”—Colin Wills in a 8.8. C. broadcast.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 November 1943, Page 5
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