WOMAN MEAT-CARRIER
SENSATION AT SMITHFIELD.
London, Oct. 30.
One of the last masculine strongholds in London has fallen to a woman. It was Smithfield Market, where a woman meat-carrier appeared for the first time in history this week. In a few hours she had disposed of tons of meat. She was Mrs A. E. Tidd, who is going to carry on tho work of her late husband. She bustled about taking orders in a capacious notebook, and superintending lifer lorries, apparently oblivious to the mild sensation she was causing.
A petite, fair-haired woman, Mrs Tidd wore’ a red-peaked cap. long white coat, short skirt, and big blaU; Russian boots. A leather money satchel was slung across her should-
“I have never been associated with the business before.” she said, “hut I am certain that I shall succeed. I don’t feel at all strange being the only woman in the Market. I just think that I am here to get on with the job. I feel quite at home.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 16 November 1927, Page 9
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168WOMAN MEAT-CARRIER Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 16 November 1927, Page 9
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