It appears that an Amazon has been training hard to qualify for enlistment in the New Zealand expeditionary force. A big-boned female the other morning strode into" a recruitng office not a hundred miles from Chi-istohurch, and, after giving, a demonstration of her physical capacities, to the 'bashful: recruiting'■ officers, announced that she must go to thb front and fight the: Germans. The desire to protect herself with the aid of- the rifle and the bayonet 'came: over her at times, she stated,'with irresistible force, and no power on earth would stop her from- getting to the front. She was.'not quite sure "whether she .would grace the New Zealand forces with her presence, or go Home and help her native land, which happened to be Ireland. She was bom at Cork, she said, arid, what was more, in military barracks, her father being" the regimental tailor. _ She was the equal of any man, she claimed, and considered herself; better .than the ; great majority. Her list of attainments was long.' She was advised to interview the secretary of a ladies' rifle club.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 13 July 1915, Page 8
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