"JASMINE FARM"
Sir-Our attention has been drawn to the talks broadcast by Norah Alleway, also to the article "Home on the Farm" in The Listener dated June 26. The speaker states that when the farm was bought from us it was a "derelict ruin,’ and that there was no garden. This is- not true. During the six years we lived there, we made the house into a comfortable home by putting in hot water and other conveniences, and doing all the painting and papering. We made lawns and flower beds, fixed fences and purchased cows and poultry which we always kept in good condition. We brought up four children and also found time to serve on school committee, Women’s Institute, rifle club, Red Cross, drama club, and help with the socials arranged to farewell and welcome home the boys who went to World War Two. This youngish woman with no ties found that the small holding of five and a-half acres was a "kind of Moloch that devoured all her time." She could not even spare one afternoon a month to join the C.W.I., most of whose members
lived on farms and had several children to care for. She keeps referring to her very comfortable home in Timaru. Why did she want to exchange it for a "derelict ruin’? Incidentally, we found that this same comfortable home had to have quite a sum spent on fixing sanitary. drains, leaking roof and’ cistern, electricity repairs, etc. We do think the NZBS should verify statements broadcast. It would have been easy to find out the truth from residents of the district, instead of accepting statements from this person from England who feels she owes nothing to the country where she found a home. We do not wish to intrude too much on your space, but you devoted a column about the talk and "Fair play is bonnv plav."
F. AND S.
NEWTON
(Timaru).
(The following passage is quoted from the first of, the talks: ‘"‘Let me say here that my comments are not in any way intended as a _tefiection on the owner or his family. He was a@ réturned soldier and a very sick man, with a school-age family away most of the day, so he must have found it very hard to keep things going."’-Ed, ) 3
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 733, 31 July 1953, Page 5
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