OLD-FASHIONED SCONES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3012, 24 February 1917, Page 5

OLD-FASHIONED SCONES

Scones n«slo from Government flour are already oft sale in many tea shops, and aro proving very popular (says tho "Daily Mail"). "This is more like the old-fashioned scone," said a business mau yesterday, "than any I have tasted for. thirty years. It iB a meal in itself." The same will be .said of the, Government bread when it makes its appearance towards the end of this week. No regulations have been issued for tho disposal of surplus stocks of white Hour.- it is probable that bakers holding it will be allowed to sell again to biscuit-makers. Many bakers anticipate an increased demand for , Standard Bread, which contains rather more of the wheat grain than ' Government bread, as the result of' the new taste in bread created by the abolition of white flour. Standard Bread contains evory nourishing element in the wheat, and oan be obtained by asking for a guarantee that the bread is made from "80 per cent', straight-run flour, including the germ." Women and Railway Work. Practically all our women employed in the Railway Department, oven in the clerical branch, - have entered . tho service to release men for military duty, states a writer in tho Sydney "Telegraph." 'About. 50 are now on the'clerical As. yet only six are .placed at the ticlraf. windows-- on the various stations, while 18 aro engaged in clpaning the sleeping oars on the trains. Queensland is ahead of New South Wales in the employment of women in tho railway. Tliero thoy have as many as '40 at windows alone. ■ At present only one girl is engaged at a ticket office at the Central Railway Station, and another will be shortly taken on trial. It is an eye-openeF to see how thoroughly the sleeping-cars of tho trains-are cleaned and disinfected, making it impossible for the most virile germ to live in the carriages. For the last six months women have done this work, and shape well at it." The workers are divided into gangs, consisting of two women and one man. Each gang cleans two and a half cars per day, and- the cars measure from 65ft. to. 75ft. long. The cleaners' hours aro from 7.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m., and their wages 6s. per day. All 'the women workers in this department are either'the widows of soldiers or of railway men. One of them, a champion brass enjoys the sobriquet of "Brassy/' -which name she prefers to any other.'-.-. " ' "Do you like the work?" asked tlio visitor of a cleaner. "Oh, j yes,"'she,replied. '. "I am always happy w'prking about a train. I've beeniused to a railway all my life, and I feel there,is something wrong if I can't hear or' a.see.a train."

The Methodist: Women's Foreign and Home 'fission Union holds its third conference in 'the Webb -Street Mission •HalT next week,' beginning oh Monday next. Mrs. Bowran, of Christohurch, is_ +,he president, and she will arrive, with Mrs. Berry (secretary), from Christchurch to-day. The- conference tfili be continued till Friday, and tho delegates, who aro expected to 'arrive from different parts of New Zealand, will he welcomed'by tho Mayoress (Mrs. J. P. Luke) and by Mrs. Johnston WrighJ, president of the: local auxiliary. S garden party to be held at Mrs. Jenness's resSfgnce will be the concluding event of the conference.

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