LAND GIRLS IN NORFOLK.
Trim figures in brooches, gait as, smocks, and slouch hats, plodding a'ong in Ihe roar of two-hors • ploughare becoming more and more.a. P*iniliar sight in Norfolk, signifying that growing numbers of land girls are returning to their wartime tasks (s.iys
a delayed cable). Women are turning to with a'ac. ritv and farmers’ wives and daugnters and gentlemen farmers are being s nt to dairy and stock farms to Iked the stock. The pavement of Norwich’s busiest street is blocked with the portmanteaux of young men awaking allocation to farms. The strikers appear to be 'receiving a good deal of support from ihe clergy in the villages, and the si; nation has become graver during the week-end.
Both s'des appear to be “ diggingin '’ in preparation for a long struggle and both art prepared to accept Llm conse«|uenc.es.. Strike pay is now being issued by the union.
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Shannon News, 1 May 1923, Page 3
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149LAND GIRLS IN NORFOLK. Shannon News, 1 May 1923, Page 3
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