WOMEN ON FARMS.
! .Women workers on farms in the Wanga/nui district, are doing their;bit towards j helping the Empiro in this time of trouble, J W3 a Wanganui paper. , : Several instances have been quoted recently in this connection, ■ and ;it has been • known :■' for ':■; many ■".years, that: women 'have taken their share :; in ;: the ' work on: dairy farms. : : ■Up '. till a day/ or . two ago ,it was always I held ■ that ;; dipping : sheep was a man's work, : but on .a farm.-near Wanganui a . woman was i seen ~■ doingf the; dipping ; and ■;,doing jit well. v She was a guest: at ; i the homestead, and as there was a shortage of men v she V offered her services, ? : which were gladly accepted. The result was that she put. through 1400 sheep in the daya creditable performance. •
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16499, 27 March 1917, Page 6
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