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+++ Searching document int.Mrs OB, Mrs ZR, int 2...
SB:  OK.  AND DID YOU HAVE A FRIDGE? 497
ZR:  No I don't think they had FRIDGEs in those days.  They just had ... 501
OB:  Not in early days.  Later on when they came in we got the FRIDGE.    503
OB:  It would be in the '30s.  When they first come you know.  The FRIDGEs would 
have  been in about five or six years before we got one. 521
SB:  GETTING THE FRIDGE AND THE WASHING MACHINE?   527
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+++ Searching document intJ B...
      RB:  We had a gas cooker but otherwise everything was electric.  At first 
we  didn't have a FRIDGE.  They didn't have such things that I remember.  We got 
a fridge, I  can't exactly remember when we got that.  They may have had one 
when I was living in  South Africa, I can't remember.  Because I was in South 
Africa when the household  fridges came in.                 593
      RB:  That must have been about just before the Second World War that they 
came in  then.  This neighbour of mine had a FRIDGE but then when the war came 
along I moved to  stay with friends rather than stay on my own. My husband 
joined up with the South  Africans.  He was up in Kenya, Uganda for a while.  
Not having any relations there I  stayed with friends.             597
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+++ Searching document int.Crossan, Phyllis...
      PC:  Yes.  I didn't even have a FRIDGE at that time.                337
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+++ Searching document int.Mrs MG...
      But I remember the milk coming.  It was delivered and it wasn't hygienic 
either  because it was clomped out of a big can into your milk jug.  Nobody had 
FRIDGEs.  We  didn't have a fridge in the early days.  I never liked milk 
because in the summer time  mother scalded all the milk.  She was very fussy.  
That helped it keep.  During my time  in Dunedin tuberculosis was quite rife.  
There were infectious wards at the hospital.  Also there was a lot of goitre 
because the salt wasn't iodised.  My father was aware of  all these things.  So 
mother was very careful with the milk.              384
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+++ Searching document int.Harris, Bill & Frances...
      WH:  But I can remember it being scalded a lot even out [FH: Uh, Mother 
always did  it during the suhmmer.] at Waitati because there were no FRIDGEs you 
see, noÐone had any  fridges.  You couldn't afford it.                 3441
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+++ Searching document int.Jones, Joyce...
      JJ:  The youngest, when I was in Milton home with the youngest boy. 
There's ten  years between the first and the last.  I was in the home in Milton 
with the youngest one  and my husband had taken the time off work.  It was a 
full fortnight in the home with a  baby then.  He'd taken the time off work to 
mind the other three.  There was one still  at home, he was three.  The other 
two were at school.  He'd gone to town with the  threeÐyearÐold boy and picked 
out a refrigerator.  That was to be a surprise for me when  I got home.  He said 
when I got out of the home, 'this is the last time I am going to  wash.'  There 
were three years between the last one and the one before and it was out of  
napkins.  I thought it was the last time I was going to wash napkins.  I'm going 
to have  a washing machine.  So I got a washing machine and a FRIDGE and my 
husband had a car.  I  thought I was made.  A good old Wideway, a beautiful big 
one.            1211
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+++ Searching document int.McCracken, Ken and Velda...
      KM:      Getting that service that was given in those days. Today they 
donÕt give  that service. In fact when the groceries were delivered the next day 
and they had vans  that I remember - previously they must have done it with 
horse and cart, you took the  goods into the personÕs house and unpacked all the 
goods on their bench. And later on  when people had FRIDGEs you put their frozen 
things in the fridge and you really -  people trusted you and you, you trusted 
them, and when you were collecting the orders  you had to know all the prices 
because many people paid when you came to the door -         388
      KM:      FRIDGEs. Instead of having a -     2004
      KM:      They had a - FRIDGEs made a big difference.               2012
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+++ Searching document int.Melville, Colin...
MC: DO YOU THINK THAT IT WAS WASHING MACHINES THAT MADE THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE 
OR WAS IT  SOMETHING ELSE LIKE A FRIDGE OR? 871
GM: Yeah, the washing machine to me, then again, the FRIDGE was such an asset 
for the  milk. We had it in the safe outside, yes, and we had to replenish milk 
daily and bread  daily and everything and all those things were of course the 
products.... 873
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+++ Searching document int.Mrs LMM '98...
      LMM:      Yes, very, yes, shops at the top of the street and at the 
bottom, we had  everything, grocer shop and butcher shop, eh, fruit shops, fish 
shop, everything like  that was all quite, you know, quite handy, and everybody 
went for their messages every  day in those days because there was no FRIDGEs or 
freezers and things, they just all  went out every day and did the shopping.           
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+++ Searching document int.Norman, Annie...
	JW:	No FRIDGEs in those days.  2714
	TB:	WHEN, WHEN DID YOU GET YOUR FIRST FRIDGE? WHAT, WHAT DID YOU DO 
BEFORE FRIDGES TO  KEEP THINGS COLD?               2722
	TB:	WHAT DID YOU DO BEFORE FRIDGES TO KEEP THINGS COLD? DID AN ICE-MAN 
COME AROUND? DID  YOU BUY ICE OR JUST USE THE SAFE?                 2726
	JW:	I just had that cupboard there before I had a FRIDGE.               
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	TB:	Yes. Cause it intrigues me how people ever got on before FRIDGEs, I 
have no idea.     2784
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+++ Searching document int.Randall, Peter...
      PR:  We had a dining room there.  There was a dining room there for the 
girls, a  dining room there for the men and there was a cook employed then.  It 
cost us sixpence a  week for our tea money.  If you wanted a meal in the middle 
of the day, say a couple of  sausages or chops or something you'd perhaps have 
that.  You'd tell the cook and she'd  buy it each day for that.  There were no 
FRIDGEs.  She'd go down the road and say you  ordered a couple of chops she'd go 
down and buy them.  That would cost you half a crown  a week if you had that 
every day.                  340
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+++ Searching document int.Mrs MT...
SB:  OK.  WHEN WAS THE FIRST TIME YOUR FAMILY GOT A FRIDGE AND A WASHING 
MACHINE?           618
MT:  She never had a FRIDGE.  She got her washing machine with me and I've never  
forgotten it.  It would be somewhere in the '60s.  Late '60s.             628
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+++ Searching document int.Thorn, Patricia...
      PT:      Oh yes, oh definitely yes, because we used to have a copper range 
and  two, two wooden tubs and the, the washing was all done in the copper range 
which had to  be fired out in, in the separate wash house and we, we didn't have 
a refrigerator when I  was small, we had a safe, it was by the back door, and 
mother used to preserve eggs and  ice in glass, you know, in a great big 
kerosene tin, and they were used for when she was  making Christmas puddings and 
things like that, you know, get the eggs out, and it  wasn't till, oh ... oh, 
well in 19 - I was, I might have been working, I don't remember  when we first 
got a FRIDGE.      379
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+++ Searching document int.Wilkie, John ...
     JW:  I often say to people that when I got married and lived in the house 
along  Gladstone Road there, a solicitor had lived there.  He was the owner of 
it and we rented  it.  We hardly looked through it you know.  When we got in 
there was a coal range, no  FRIDGE, no washing machine, no vanity in the 
bathroom. There was an enamel basin on a  board over the bath.  Now how many 
marriages would last today if you took a girl to a  house with those?  No 
fridge, washing machine, coal range and basin over the bath.  That  would be the 
end of ninety percent of the marriages today.                347      JW:  Oh 
yes.  Actually my wife, they have everything electric.  Range, washing  machine, 
FRIDGE.  I think my wife had been away to boarding school for four years.  So  
to take her to that was a mark of [indistinct].  We were married for fifty 
years.  It  was a beginning with nothing you might say.  We just worked our way 
up the ladder.          355
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+++ Searching document int.Wilkinson, Isabel...
      IW:      I can't remember, but we got our first FRIDGE in 1957.     481
      MC:      NOW, HOW MUCH OF A DIFFERENCE DO YOU THINK THINGS LIKE THE FRIDGE 
AND THE  WASHING MACHINE MADE TO HOUSEWORK?                 491
      IW:      Made a wonderful difference, but more particular to, to the women 
in the  country where they had shearers and the mill coming - meals had to be 
made, big meals  had to be made for breakfast, morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea 
and dinner at night, and  that people didn't have the FRIDGEs to, to 
[indistinct] or to bake beforehand, it all  had to be done more or less, good 
lot of it had to be done in the one day.                  493
      IW:      But no, it was very handy having a, a FRIDGE.              497
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+++ Searching document int.Wilson, Helen...
      HW:      Yes, well, I think that ... we didn't have a FRIDGE then 
either.1025
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