Sir,-"Materfamilias" seems to have missed the whole point of this series, Of course farmers’ wives are all "Materfamilias" believes them to be, and more so; but a very great number of them are, thank goodness, as full of the love of fun as they are of capabilities, It would be a grim kind of life if one could not take one’s funniest moments and. make the most of them. This is what Mary Scott does so admirably, and she has been a backblocks wife for many years of her life. Nobody feels the ‘pulse of the farming woman more delicately and more understandingly than she does, and this is partly because she most truly belongs. I, too, am a farmer’s wife, and I can honestly say that, in my neighbourhood alone, I know that these broadcasts have been truly looked forward to-not only by the womenfolk, but. by the men, too. A number of tired and work-worp husbands have stayed awake and laughed long and loudly as the stories unfolded themselves step by step.
Better still, I know of returned men (so quiet one wonders often what they are thinking) who, disliking the noise and melodrama of the usual serial, have listened and laughed delightedly at these broadcasts. To succeed in this way must surely deserve greater praise than "a pleasant, if not very important, half-
hour' 8 listening"
FARMER'S WIFE
(Waikato)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 275, 29 September 1944, Page 5
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232Untitled New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 275, 29 September 1944, Page 5
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