But Electricity Intervenes

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 52, 11 July 1930, Page 34

But Electricity Intervenes

T the annual conference of the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union, the difficulty of obtaining and keeping domestic help in country districts was again bemoaned. It was stated that New Zealand girls able to perform the duties required of them preferred town work to country life. By enlisting the aid of electricity, not only is the housewife to a large extent enabled to dispense with domestic help, but were such must be employed it becomes more readily obtainable. With the drudgery taken out of milking, the washing-up in the shed, and

time saved by cooking and cleaning electrically, country life assumes a new aspect. ‘The work becomes interesting and not too arduous for either mistress, New Zealand or imported help. We feel sure that it is to the amenities of life which electricity provides, that housewives and employers must look to solve the difficulty of keeping the young people on the land.