FEMALE LABOUR
MASS DRAFTING IN SYDNEY Sydney, Mar. 7. Three hundred women between the ages of 18 and 35 have been drafted to start work in Sydney canneries on Monday. None of the women are gainfully employed and are considered ta have little domestic responsibility. It is expected that Australia will apply compulsion within the next few weeks. This first mass drafting has been made to cope with hundreds of tons of peaches which will shortly pour into the canneries. “If the peaches are not processed immediately they will rot,” explained a senior manpower of- , ficial. “Australia cannot afford a colossal waste of food.” —P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 8 March 1943, Page 4
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