LAND SERVICE GIRLS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 109, 10 May 1943, Page 4

LAND SERVICE GIRLS

PROBLEM IN DOMINION

UNEXPECTED DEVELOPMENT

Advice that the National Council of Primary Production was making representations to the Minister of Agriculture that all women who were full-time employees in primary production be entitled to join the Women's Land' Service, was received from the Director of the Fields Division, Mr. P. W. Smallfield, at a meeting of the Auckland Council of Primary Production this morning.

The Director of National Service had earlier advised that, although it was realised that girls were giving an important service in working in market gardens, unfortunately, for every application from girls willing to be placed on this type of farm, a dozen applications were received from farmers' daughters already engaged on such work. With the admission of farmers' daughters to the land service scheme, the provision of working clothes and equipment was proving very costly, and it was feared that the original intention of the scheme, namely, the direction of inexperienced girls on to the land, was being lost sight of.