THE GREAT "LAND ARMY,"

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2652, 24 December 1915, Page 11

THE GREAT "LAND ARMY,"

An immense movement is going forward under the auspices of Lord Selborne and the Notional Political League for placing women on the land, writes a London correspondent. • The question of the food supply is becoming a very grave one, as more and more agricultural labourers are joining the Army. " The intention is now to form ,a great "land army," which will take up the work that really constitutes the second lino of defence of our Empire. For this "army" three hundred women are already in training, and it is hoped that by the spring thousands will be serving in it. The necessary training ■varies in, length according to the branch. of agriculture Which is being taken up. For milkers only a six week's apprenticeship is required, at the end of which time the worker may receive los. a week and a cottage to live in. ' Heavy work, such as ploughing, : sowing, etc., is also to be taken oyer by women, and those who have begun are doing well. ■ Indeed,-all the experiments so far have been brilliantly successful. During tho hop season, 60 women of the professional class were sent out, with a trained nu'fss' at their head, to a camp in Worcester. They were untrained, but, they took to ,the work splendidly, and tho other "hoppers" accepted- their new comrades and on tho best of terms. It is said that never beforo had the ' picking gone on 60 smoothly and happily, and when the novices left 400 "licppors" accompanied them to tho station to see'them,off.. , • Indeed,-one' of tho girls turned , out a champion-.picker, and at length an unipirfe, was 'chosen with due formalities,! arid a competition arranged between this girl and the best man "hopper." In an hour's contest she won easily, showing at the end 81b. to the man's 's|lb. |- Hay-baling is another occupation at which women are proving adept. ; It consists in wiring and packing bundles of hay to bo dispatched to the front. No training is required. Girls are sent ,out in batches of six or twelv,e to the 'district in which tlieir services . are' required. Their fare is paid, and they recoive wages graduated by the amount, of work they get through. The maximum wage is 28s. a'week. A,party, of, these hay-baliSrs passed through London the other day on their way to a'fresh district. They looked brown and well, and seemed to be thoroughly enjoying . themselves. A huge meeting was held at the Mansion House, 'with the Lord Mayor in the chair recently. .".-.lt is hoped that 100,000 Women will be ready, by tho spring to ...replace the men who have left the farms to go .to the .'.front!' . ' The Lord Mayor, in speaking of tlie varied occupations women are adopting, referred to their remount work. .Thero are two remount depots'here, it seems, run entirely by wonion, and. the speaker averred that there were no depots in th'e country worked more economically, and none where the horses were better, looked i after. This work. : isi- of course, under War Office control, i.Three hundred,women .obtained through various agencies have already been employed • da-the ■ remount department, and their success *is unquestioned. There is, I believe, a demand for more women who posses? a'knowlodge of horses.. .HAIRS. ON THE PACK.. " The greatest humiliation is-suffered by women wnoihave superfluous hair. When conversing- with friends who happen-, to look at-them interestedly they feel that it is tho hair that is drawing attention. To a certain extent this is so, for one always notices-and feels sorry for .thoso afflicted in this way. Depilatories are useless, .electrolysis as a rule marks the skin permanently/ and very few remedies are to bo relied upon, for this trouble. There is a safe, sure, and single remedy in "Kuldah" which-.is quite different from any other , preparation—it is a lotion; which penetrate the hair shaft and withers the root. A remarkable feature of this remedy is that while it destroys the hair .permanently it does not-affect the skin. Women who are 'troubled with superfluous hair should procure "Kuldah" at once. ' Price, 6s. 6d. from Geo. Mee,- chemist, Lambton Quay, Wellington (posted , to any address 3d. ,eitra).—Advt. Mr. S. George' Nathan advertises sections for sale in the. Happy Valley Estate. Messrs. Grant and Campbell," Hawera, advertise two,.farm, properties for rale or. exchange.';.■' , - ■ ■, Mr. F. E. H.i Brice, Marton, has for sale a 1473-acre freehold farm,- situated 20 miles , from Ngaruawahia.-