OFFER OF MODEL FARM
TRAINING OF LAND GIRLS
An offer of a 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 on Tuesday evening in Timaru, states the Christchurch "Press." The offer had been made by Commander A. D. Boyle, who was away on active service, of his farm at Geraldine with the services of a manager to give three months' training to girls in batches.
Mrs. Gilmer emphasised that the training was necessary. Many young girls thought that it was only necessary to get into trousers and tunic and, looking pretty, drive cows and horses about. Girls • with that idea were of no use in the scheme, and only became a nuisance to farmers' wives.
Forty girls were needed each year at Massey College to be trained for herd-testing,, a necessary and pleasant work. .
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 38, 14 February 1941, Page 4
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151OFFER OF MODEL FARM Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 38, 14 February 1941, Page 4
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