Short on Facts
MAKING ENDS MEET, a series of talks on family budgeting, heard for several weeks now in Topics for Women from 4YA, has, like so many good radio programmes, achieved more than it set out to do, for one is struck by the personal quality of these brief revelations of feminine ingenuity. The scripts have been well writtén and are sympathetically read, and each in itself is a small history of day-to-day living, told without self-pity or self-admira-tion. The women who contributed their stories are completely anonymous. Why, then, have they almost without exception been so vague about actual financial details? My fact-loving mind kept clamouring as I listened to the tale of their economies, for details of "how much" and "what proportion." But rately was it satisfied,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 713, 13 March 1953, Page 10
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130Short on Facts New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 713, 13 March 1953, Page 10
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