WOMEN ON FARMS
In Cornwall, England, three unmarried sisters—Bertha, Alwyn and Christiana Pettygraph—aged respectively 30, 35 and 50, are employed as manual labourers. Bertha and Alwyn are engaged as farm labourers and. work 12 hours a day at ploughing, fencing etc., for 15s per week. Christiana, who is employed as a roadmender by the local borough council, receives £1 per week. These girls, who obtained this kind of work during the war when m6n were scarce, have kept it ever since. Out of their earnings they support a widowed mother and their two grandmothers, one of whom, by the way, is 103 years.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21414, 11 February 1933, Page 6 (Supplement)
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103WOMEN ON FARMS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21414, 11 February 1933, Page 6 (Supplement)
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