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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 36, 10 February 1917, Page 16

At a slag reduction works in England I i "omen have been engaged to shovel slag ! into a crusher; at an ironstone works 22 women are employed in loading and < 1 unloading wagon*; others are occupied !in recovering ironstone from refuse heaps. At several docks they are acting as pit-prop carriers, and elsewhere as • building labourers, though none are . carrying the hod. Women navvies are ; working in the construction of chemical i plant, and in some places are employed i, as scavengers and road cleaners, on sewerage work, and to replace furnace i men in glass bottle making.