A SHELL GIRL'S TRAGEDY.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 276, 18 May 1917, Page 4 (Supplement)

A SHELL GIRL'S TRAGEDY.

Over-fatigue means inferior work, and every care is taken to avoid this event in lactones under State control. A pathetic storv i.s told in this connection ! in an interesting article on the work of Welfare Supervision in the February Pearson's Magazine. 1" In one factory one of the most determined workers was a girl of twensyiwo who found no labour too heavy, no hours too long ,'' says the writer. "Her one idea was to turn out shells as ' last as ever she could, with never a thought for her own tiredness. There was a tragic reason for her intensity. Her father had been torpedoed m the North Sea and drowned; two brothers had lost their lives in Gallipoli, and iier husband, to whom she had been married only two days, had been killed 111 France.

1 "I am the only one left of my family to fight the devils, and this is the. only , wav 1 can do it,'was her grim reply to t he Wel fare Worker who had suggested that she was over-tiring herself. It was only by gently pointing out that her output would be bigger in the end it she d:d not knock herself out that the girl was persuaded to husband her .strength a little.''