WOMEN, WASHING AND WAR
os i SERIES of letters describing ia A daily life of a woman in England under blitzkreig conditions have been secured by the NBS and the first of them will be read from 2YA on Wednesday morning next, January 29, at 10.45 am. The writer calls herself just "Monica" and although she is known to be a radio writer whose work has been heard before, on this occasion she writes as an ordinary woman. Much has been heard of the arduous work of the A.R.P. wardens, the Fire Brigades and other workers, but unfortunately little is told of the most heroic but least dramatic duties of all -the work of a mother. " Monica" tells how she and her friends managed to get the washing done on air raid days, discusses the price of vegetables, children’s schooling, what happens when the gas mains are cut by bombs, and describes the "fire sales" at the big department stores, and all the other odds and énds of a woman’s endless round under the stress of war. The letters have nothing more to them than homely details, but they will bring home strangely to New Zealand women some of the realities of England in war-time. The NBS is fortunate in having a number of letters in hand, so the continuity of. the series is assured.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 83, 24 January 1941, Page 15
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225WOMEN, WASHING AND WAR New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 83, 24 January 1941, Page 15
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