Women And Bank Accounts

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 52, 21 June 1940, Page 10

Women And Bank Accounts

TRANGE though it may seem in this enlightened day and age there are still many women who wilt visibly at any suggestion that they should keep a bank account, because it means writing cheeses

a real bogey to lots of them. So they excuse themselves by saying that it’s not worth while when they have only a small amount of money to look after. But whether the amount of money is large or small there is a very real difficulty in finding a safe place to keep it at home, and to carry it about in a purse or hand bag as some women I

know do, always seems to me to be asking for trouble. I’m not thinking of those women whose husbands get paid once a week and who hand over the housekeeping money regularly on pay day as all good husbands do, but of those women whose hus-

bands get paid once a month. A month’s housekeeping money is a real responsibility and much the easiest and safest way to keep it is to put it in a bank and draw it out by cheque as you require it. I find it is the most economical way to keep it too. Many a time I would be tempted to buy something I fancied if I had the cash in my bag, but when I have to draw a cheque for it I think twice and generally find all sorts of good reasons for doing without it. It’s the easiest thing in the world to open a banking account. All you have to do is to take some money into the bank and tell one of the delightful young men behind the counter that you want to open an account and he will tell you exactly what to do.-(" Margaret" in a recent talk to women.)