HIGHER-PURCHASE
Sir,-Joy Flanagan appears to rebuke me for writing about an electric washingmachine installed in a condemned and tap-less house, in which a woman with five children was obviously struggling to exist. I agree with Mrs. Flanagan that a washing-machine is a deserved and valuable help to mothers of five children; but surely not in the absence of taps, tubs, benches and other nonelaborate amenities. The Woman who cradled her Child in a manger was in happier and healthier surroundings, I should think, than the woman who cradled her child in a house condemned by the authorities as unsuitable for human habitation. To make myself more plain: I think the hire-purchase system evil, and municipal control of housing insufficient when a woman can buy an electric washing-machine before she has enough clothes to wash in it, and before she is supplied with the so-called free elements of clean water and fresh air to wash and dry even those clothes that ehae hac.
J. E.
S.
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 185, 8 January 1943, Page 3
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166HIGHER-PURCHASE New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 185, 8 January 1943, Page 3
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