WOMEN ON FARMS
“If is not in accordance with Government policy for women and girls engaged in farming production to be transferred to secondary industries, said the Prime Minister, in reply to an urgent question asked 'by Mrs. Grigg (Opposition, Mid-Canterbury). Mr. Fraser said the Acting-Minister of National Service was not aware of any cases where girls had been taken off farms and transferred to employment in woollen mills as had been stated by Mrs. Grigg. , t , “In view of the serious shortage or farm labour,” the Prime Minister continued, “district manpower officers have already received instructions to refrain from directing women and girls engaged on farms to other employment.”
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 23, 22 October 1942, Page 6
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110WOMEN ON FARMS Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 23, 22 October 1942, Page 6
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