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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 10, Issue 12 (March 2, 1936)

The Resourceful Housewife

The Resourceful Housewife.

Here is one vignette of the women's self-reliant ways: “A reaping 'frolic’ [a kind of working bee in which all the neighbours joined] was in progress on John McGregor's farm, Waipu Centre. Mrs. McGregor found that she did not have enough bread for such a large party, and she had no flour in the house. (Owing to the difficulty of crossing the Waipu river bar, outside supplies were frequently cut off.) She went to the wheat field, gathered some sheaves, thrashed them, winnowed the grain, and ground it in a hand-mill. When the working party came in to tea, she had an ample supply of scones —made from the grain that had been growing in the field at lunch time.”