GIRL FARMERS' TROUSERS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 225, 10 November 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

GIRL FARMERS' TROUSERS.

RErTSAL TO WEAR SKIRTS IN' OFF-TIME. A number of young women workers .in trhniirg for tarm work at, Margam, Glamorgan, alitor {heir c'i.v's wo.'k visited Aberavon "in their dungarvt and deelinied to obey tin Count: Women's Field Labour Committee, who ordered them to resume ordinar 7 feminine dress when spending the-.r spare time off the farms. They replied that they vu'ie their own mistresses once the dav's labov.r had ended and, dressed in : trousers," they continued their vista to Aber a von. Tlie women's commit tee cornplainod to the County Aiii-iuc-ltur.il Committee and suggested they slioui I adopt a resolution disapproving of th« bills' practice, but the chairman said the complaint was propostejous, and tt was deckled to do nothing in tlio Clatter. AN' AMOROI'S FEMALE. When a woman was clrargei at London with being disorderly it wa-i stated that sbo went up tf. u soldi.;' who was eating a sandwich an! snatched it out of his hand. Sho then threw her arms around his neck. —Mr. r'ordham : 1 suppose t'le soldier did not mind?--The Constable: He resented it very much. Then she .went to a civilian and nut her arms around hi; nek. Mr. Fordham : She \as a littl • larky. -Bound over.

Probablv the most costlv tree in tli > ■world is the plane tree -which grows in Wood Street in the City of London. It occupies space which would bring in a rental of C2- r >o per annum, and tl; < capitalised at thirty years' purchase gives a value o 4 ' £7.^00.