WOMEN REPLACE THE MOTOR CAR DRIVERS IN ENGLAND WHO HAVE BEEN CALLED UP FOR ACTIVE SERVICE.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1420, 12 July 1917, Page 26

WOMEN REPLACE THE MOTOR CAR DRIVERS IN ENGLAND WHO HAVE BEEN CALLED UP FOR ACTIVE SERVICE.

A sign of the times in London, where women motor drivers are rapidly replacing the chauffeurs. The illustration shows a ehauffeuse at the wheel of the Duchess of Marlborough’s car. Her Ladyship, who is one of the most patriotic and hard-working of society women, employs a woman to drive her car, all the men servants being at the front.

How the Home postal authorities are overcoming the shortage of men problem. One of the Dennis Royal mail vans used in London, a large number of which are being successfully driven by the Women’s Volunteer Reserve, which institution is doing admirable work during the present crisis.

It is stated that a number of German prisoners employed in England in planting potatoes in one of the principal market gardening centres were found to be carefully removing the eyes from the tubes to make sure no crop shall be gathered! Potato planting evidently is too gentlemanly an occupation for these Huns, who

should be given an occupation more in keeping with their “Kultur,” preferably breaking stones. Pig-farming would be far too risky an experiment, as were they given a free hand in this direction their already heavy casualty lists might possibly be still further augmented.