NOT ENOUGH OF US
Sir,-"One of Many" quite fails to grasp the point. She has not’ yet fed a baby, so she doesn’t know what she’s talking about. Farm life is not a closed book to me: I have spent eight years of my adult life in a farming community, have a sister a cow-farmer’s wife, and two brothers who have worked on farms. Your correspondent, as she was not feeding a baby, should have been able to do the work she mentions without sitting back and admiring herself for it. Personally, I’d heaps rather look after four of someone else’s children than two of my own. If she’s selfish enough to have 10 children, that’s her affair. I would prefer two properly fed, clothed, and educated, to 10 C3 children. As for her final platitude, I might say that it is not manna which falls from the skies
these days.-
P.
(Christchurch).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 216, 13 August 1943, Page 3
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153NOT ENOUGH OF US New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 216, 13 August 1943, Page 3
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