WIVES AND SHEEP
Sir-Why should "Broad Mind" get "all het up" about my letter? Does he (or she) think I am silly enough to suppose that husbands scornful of culture are confined to the country? Of course you will find them in the cities. Your correspondent’ might have inferred my realisation of this from my reference to fishing. Men who fish all day and talk fishing all evening are not farmers. I would remind him that this discussion started from something that "Sundowner" wrote about a farmer’s wife dissatisfied on this score. I don’t think I have ever read a Steele Rudd story. I was born and partly brought up on a New Zealand farm, and I think I know a fair amount about the life, If anyone tells me that farming is the best life I won’t contradict him. But surely it is
agreed that farm life, like that of the city, has its drawbacks, and that one of these is the relative lack of outside company. The work of the Institutes and so on, of which I know something and which I have been glad to publicise, reduces this handicap, but does not dc
away with it.
WIDER HORIZONS
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 729, 3 July 1953, Page 5
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