Land for Women

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 227, 26 September 1935, Page 10

Land for Women

Plans arc being drawn up for | settling a largo number of single' women on the land in England (states a London writer). Some of them would be in “colonies,’' others in bungalows of their own. They would keep poultry and do farming. The women for whom this outdoor life is proposed are those over 30 years of age who havo lost their profession or clerical ,iobs as a result of the slump, and who now find themselves, becauso of their age, unable to get back into their old occupations. The Over-Thirty Association for Women, of which Miss Margaret Bondfield, former Minister of Labour, is a vice-president, is trying to settle some of these women on the land. It points out that a number of them have already had experience of land work—for they worked on the land during the war. The association emphasises that the plight of these women over 30 is a

very sad one. In many cases they belong to families who were once well off,-but after tho war lost their money and the girls had to go to work. Ar present these women are trying to live on their 15s a week dole. The result is that they are going short of food, and as the period they are out of work grows they find it more and more difficult to impress prospective employers that they are suitable for a job.