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Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15127, 23 January 1917, Page 5

The war lias brought about many strange departures from the conventional in various walks of Hfe, but one of the fiiost notable is the substitution of a woman in place of a male cook on the Canterbury Company’s -coastal steamer Breeze. The last cook oi the vessel recently went int(> camp with the reinforcements, and owing to the everincreasing difficulty in procuring ships’ cooks the owners were compelled to engage a female for the work. Not so long ago it was announccd-in these columns that a stewardess had been engaged on a coastal cargo steamer, also due to the scarcity of stewards.