By the Wife of a Police Constable in Reigate

Today it is the turn of a police-constable's wife in a Surrey town to tell listeners how she keeps house, and they will find that she is a thoroughly businesslike woman. She makes her housekeeping allowance go a long way, but would be the first to admit that she has advantages. Her husband, for instance, was a marine engineer before he joined the police and he is thus able to do jobs in the house which would mean spending money in most homes. Again, she herself was employed as a dressmaker before her marriage, and so is able to make clothes for herself and her two children.

But she runs her home most ably on £2 5s. 0d. a week, pays for everything except rent and rates, and saves something for herself and her children, as she feels a woman is entitled to the security of a sum of money behind her. She will tell listeners how she manages, describing her day and her difficulties, not the least of which is that she seldom knows with any certainty when her husband will be returning for his meals.