WOMEN WAR WORKERS

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 309, 29 December 1915, Page 2

WOMEN WAR WORKERS

HARD WORK IN ENGLAND.

- The following extracts are from letters teceived in Christchureii from two women in England, one living in Hull, and one in London: —

Writing in October from Hull, one says- —" It is beginning to get very •Zeppy' again. It is a weird sensation walking home from the factory in a darkness that can almost be felt, or waiting in the darkness for the unknown. The recent police traffic regulations prohibit all private bicycles or vehicles parading the streets half an hour after the alarm goes. " The" census is going to show 26,000 men of military age not working for the war in Hull alone—think of it! How the men can hold back I can't think. They say they are waiting to be fetched. 7v'cll, this is their last chance; I wish compulsion would hurry up. The lierwtans have not, yet frightened the English people with their Zeppelin bombs. I sometimes wish the Huns would land in Ensland, and the slackers would realise that they must fight them. We hope to send up the final census returns this - Week. . I don't know what job I will be on to next." The other writer, under date October I4th. says:—" I am in the Women Volunteers, and we work like blacks at the hospital, or may be at the canteens or munition factories, wherever our corps goes. Now 1 am at munitions from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m., when the men come on for the day. It is very hard work, and I feel hali-dcad, so please excuse this scribble."' Writing a few days later: " You will congratulate mc on my promotion. T have just been made overpeer at a 'high explosive' depot; a highly responsible and dangerous position, bnt good pay. I will let you know bow I get on. It gives us much pleasure to help tin- brave Belgians whom one meets. 1 had one nice girl from Liege stavin? with mc all September. She is" well off. and works six nights a week« in a munition factory—works like a horse—the dainty little thing that she is."