Salient. Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 42 No. 2. March 5 1979
The "Housewives Unions"
The "Housewives Unions"
In the years before World War I. House-wives' unions which were founded in the main and Provincial centers. They regarded themselves as citizens concerned not only with the family but also the community. The different Housewives Unions had slightly different political leanings In May 1914 the Wellington Housewives Union objected to the imprisonment of workers concerned with the great 1913 industrial upheaval.