IN BRITAIN.
WAR OFFICE AND FARM WORKERS.
100,000 WOMEN NEEDED.
(Received January 8, 9.5 a,.m.)
LONDON, January 7
Mr R. E. Prothero .(Minister for Agriculture), speaking at Bedford 4 said theprico of oats had. been fixed at 41s 3d.per 33&b.. The War: Oißce, :^ie added,..would not ibake more farm labourers until the agricultural' census ; analysis was completed. One hundred thousand women were employed on the land, and a similar number was still j wanted. "*' \
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3952, 8 January 1917, Page 5
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