ADVICE TO FARMERS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14156, 19 April 1916, Page 2

ADVICE TO FARMERS.

Prejudice against women in certain occupations came out strongly. The owner of a fish restaurant was told that he must get women.

An application to transfer a. chartered accountant's managing clerk to the latest group possible was allowed ou the ground that he was indispensable by reason of his export knowledge of income tax details Certain members of the firm had enlisted and their places had been taken by women. "But unfortunately we cannot have women chartered iu<-oiuvtaaits. , '11:*.----institute will not allow it."

A s'lk nedct!" gutter wji? com inc."' that women could not do bis.work, and a military cap cutter held the same comfortable belief. But both were sent to the colours.

In defiance of the certified ocempativns on which the defendants have expended so much thought, the tri'ounnl told the fai-i-.ors plainly that .they ought to employ women. Tho military representative mentioned at -Lancaster

■that'l2oo had.-been' starred as farni labourers without any proof that-tliey were experts in ploughing, horsc-keop-ing, or' -cmv-keeping. A market gardener and farmer1 applied at Cherts&j' for his soji, aged nineteen, who had been stockman and ioraman for four months. Wlien asked if he had evor tried female labour he said: "I-have female labour now." Applicant ma do a similar application for his shepherd. Asked if he had tried female labour in that case he heatedly retorted he could not possibly let a woman look after his sheep.. The son was refused exemption, and temporary exemption was granted to the shepherd.

"Can't yoxi get a woman to milk?" a. farmer was asked at Malraesbury, Wiltshire. "I can't get women on the land, even in the summer,' for such work as haymaking, let alone in the winter," he replied. "Women arc doing it in other counties, and women in Wiltshire should learn to do it," said Sir Ai:dley Neeld.