WOMEN'S SESSIONS

New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 547, 16 December 1949, Page 5

WOMEN'S SESSIONS

Sir-A writer in The Listener recently expressed approval of the fare provided in the women’s session. A more appropriate label for this half hour would be "The Housewives’ session" and some of us would like to forget that we are housewives for this little break each day-to enjoy a mental holiday from domesticity. We do wish that it could be recognised that while perhaps some women are interested in food all of the time, and all of them some of the time, we are really not all interested all of the time. Add to food talks, dull domestic science talks, advice on bringing up children and reminders on other good works, and there isn’t much time left for anything interesting or entertaining. This really could all be disposed of in a "Domestic Day"-take it or leave it. At present Wednesday is usually the best day, though we did suffer a regrettable burlesque recently. There are good talks from time to time, but even one hitherto reliable speaker, who has given us pleasant talks in the past, turned on us recently. Through a whole series she upbraided us, and in brisk dictatorial tones threatened us, that unlessamongst other things--we caught tourists with oysters and held them with apple pie we’d get no dollars. Few of us ever see a tourist in the flesh anyhow so we leave it to the Tourist Department to roll out the oyster barrel in the dollar cause. Then surely the session should not have to depend upon the same few people all the time. Wellington is said to be the intellectual city and should be

able to produce a sufficient number of well-informed women to provide a little variety during our daily, or even triweekly, half-hour.

A. C.

G.

( Wellington Yo