MODEL FARM OFFERED
Training Of Land Girls In
New Zealand
An offer of :r model farm to the Women's War Service Auxiliary for the training of land army girls was announced by Mrs. Knox Gilmer at a public meeting in Timaru on Wednesday night. The offer had been made by Commander A. D. Boyle, who was away on active service, of his tarin at Geraldine with the services of a manager to give three months training to girls in batches. Mrs. Gilmer emphasized that the iraining was necessary. Many young girls thought that it was only m'cc.ssary to get into trousers ami tunic and. looking pretty. drive cows and horses about Girls with 'hat idea were of no use in the scheme, and only became a nuisance to farmers’ wives.
Forty girls were needed each yeiri at Massey College to be trained for herd-testing, a necessary and pleasant work.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 120, 14 February 1941, Page 4
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149MODEL FARM OFFERED Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 120, 14 February 1941, Page 4
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