COUNTRY WOMEN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 June 1943, Page 3

COUNTRY WOMEN

GALLANT WORK IN BRITAIN TRIBUTE BY HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. ADDRESS TO WOMEN’S INSTITUTE CONFERENCE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 8. Appreciation and thanks for the magnificent contribution by the Women s Institutes toward winning the war was expressed by the Queen, addressing a conference of the National Federation of Women’s Institutes. Her Majesty said: "Today the place of the country woman is more important than evei before. In spite of all the war time difficulties, it is she who must care for the workers who are growing our food, use her skill to make the best possible use of that food, bring up her children to love and defend those values for which we are fighting, and guide them to love and cherish the beautiful country of which we are so proud. “Today, our villages are sadly empty; ’the young men are away fighting and the girls, too, are away on war work. The great responsibility of carrying on rests with the older women, and how gallantly they are doing this. When we have won through to peace a great page in the history of Britain s war effort should be devoted to the country women in this dear land of curs, who when left to carry on in the villages have tackled their jobs quietly with zeal and efficiency.”