WOMEN ON FARMS
POSITION IN DOMINION ENGLISH GIRL'S INQUIRY What are the prospects of an English girl, trained in farm work, obtaining employment on a New Zealand farm, not the usual "housework-help milk" job, but as a practical farmer? The information is sought by Miss Sylvia M. Matthews, of Crouch End, London, who has been attracted toward New Zealand by the appearance of a letter from an Auckland farmer published in an English farming weekly. "What 1 really want to know is whether thero is any possible opening at all for women on farms in New Zealand?" she writes to the farmer. "1 am very keen to go out there, but have neither money nor frieuds in New Zealand to help me. I have trained for a year on a dairy farm and tor two years at Reading University, where I took dairying. I prefer, however, the practical farm work with cattle and poultry and 1 am keen on horses. 1 have since had two jobs on dairy farms. "I have applied to the Association for Overseas Settlement of British Women, but they are not very hopeful. Can you advise me?" Miss Matthews asks "1 am 21 years old "
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22197, 26 August 1935, Page 12
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199WOMEN ON FARMS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22197, 26 August 1935, Page 12
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