Why Save Labour?
T first, our washing was taken to the tiver by two native girls and washed on the stones in running water, to be brought back clean, and smelling of grass and sunshine. But this was severe on the clothes, and we bought a washing
machine and I rued the day. The native girls were not used to the vagaries of washing machinés and they didn’t like the ridiculous thing. So it meant that I had to stand over them all the time, or it wouldn’t work, and they wouldn’t
try to learn. There wasn’t much labour- | saving for me in our investment. Kaffirs see no sense in any labour-saving device. To them there. is no point in saving time, so long as they can have their afternoon sleep, and dance on Sundays. -("On a Farm on the Veld." Madeline Alston, 2YA, May 25.) f
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 155, 12 June 1942, Page 3
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147Why Save Labour? New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 155, 12 June 1942, Page 3
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