WOMEN GARDENERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16499, 27 March 1917, Page 6

WOMEN GARDENERS.

Tin- Reserves Committee reported to tho t Wellington City V Council • that they had: received a proposal from - Dr. < Platte-Mills, J president of : the Women's X National ? Roj servo, that the council should agreo to I give four capable women -, tho;privileged of. being_ taught ! such gardening 'work'as thd' I superintendent' of -reserves deems suitable,' and v after I three v months, : or "■■ longer :: - if necessary, these women 'i should V- bo - : paid according ■ to qualifications... The • superin* tendent of reserves favoured the suggestion, and the committee recommended that the Women's National Reserve and ; Miss : Birch, of the & ; W. C A.,V Should lbo £ informed that the , council was prepared ' to give a ■ limited number, of women, recommended by these organisations, such, tuition as the superintendent, of '; reserve.! may ■ deem i desirable, and - after they • had ; servedltheir probationary I period ■ they could be ; assured t that if - there were any' appointments in tho service' that, •in •■ the opinion of the Reserves Committee could bo satisfactorily filled by. these women ' tlioy would get tho •appointments, b' u ( : the council was not,to no placed under any obligation, ; moral or- otherwise/' to ; give them employment after ;tho; expiration of their training period.' The question ' of : appointments .would■ bo '? governed by the exigencies of tho situation from' time to time, . The report was adopted. , 'I