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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 162, 8 June 1940, Page 11

Mrs TV. P. Russell, of Palmerston North, has been visiting Dunedin and Invercargill. Miss Kelly, who has been visiting Auckland, has returned to Palmerston North. Miss L. Cronin, of Mariapouri Crescent, is spending a holiday ,at Tongariro National Park. Mrs F. Grotrian, of “Ivonewa,” Ashliurst, is staying with Mrs TV. G. Turnbull, of Thorndon, Wellington. Mrs 11. Hazlehurst, of Morrinsyille and formerly of Wliakarongo, is visiting this district. Miss G. Fuller, daughter of Mrs It. A. Fuller, of Victoria Avenue, is now homo science mistress at the Hamilton Technical School, after being stationed in Christchurch for some years. j Miss Elizabeth Tyler Smith, of Epsom, Auckland, is looking forward to her 100th birthday, which falls next Thursday. She was born in Worcestershire, England, on June 13, 1840, and came to New Zealand with her brotlrer •as a girl of 15 in 1855. They landed at Lyttelton and walked over the Port Hills to Papanui. . After spending 12 years in Oaiuaru, Miss. Smith went to live in Patca, finally going in 1892 to Auckland. Very good general health is still enjoyed by Miss Smith who occasionally does a little shopping. She still enjoys reading and her hearing is excellent.

The highest possible praise of the land girls begins to appear in the local Press from one side of England to the other, and different qualities are selected, notes Sir W. Beach ThomasThe Yorkshire Post, for example, recently published a letter detailing the skilful handling of six score of pigs and other animals by a land girl, who became an expert in the feeding of different classes of stock. This girl did not plough ; but high approval ol both the skill and energy of land girls in ploughing has been expressed in Essex, in Oxford, arid, indeed, many other counties; Some of them have been at work in remote Western farms, where a tractor and a ploughwoman have never before been seen. In general, it may be said that women have'always done yeoman work on the small farms in the West. They have either done nothing or have- been confined to the poultry-yard in the Eastern half of England. The war is rapidly destroying the absurd idea that it is unladylike to take a turn on the land. Some, at any rate, of the land girls nurse the ambition to become farmers when the 'war is over.

(By “Nanette.”)