YOUNG LADIES TO WORK IN THE GARDENS

FEMALE LABOUR ON THE FARMS

The Council of the Central and Associate Chambers of Agriculture at a meeting on Tuesday: Suggested work for old age pensioners.

A resolution was moved by Mr Amos, who alluded to the question of women labour, said that if they paid a sufficient price for it, in some parts they would get it.

The harvest was as important to the country as munitions.

THE POSITION OF THE GARDENERS

MARKET GARDENERS AND THE LABOUR QUESTION

SUGGESTIONS MADE TO SOLVE LABOUR SHORTAGE

by Councillor Witts

1. Children should be allowed to leave school at 12 years of age instead of 13 or 14.
2. Timetables of schools should be altered so that the children should be free for half a day all through the week during the time of war.

FARM LABOURER AND THE WAR

To the Editor of the “Evesham Journal”

Sir

MR WILLIS BUND’S SUBSTITUTION SCHEME

To the Editor of “The Journal & Advertiser”

Sir

With reference to the meeting held at the Police Station on the 27th inst with regard to assistance on the land, I should like to ask is it just and wise for a fit man who has always been on the land as a market gardener to be taken away to fight, and put a conscientious objector, who is a fit man also to take his place, and one knows nothing whatever about gardening.

MARKET GARDENERS AND EXEMPTIONS

“TOMMIES” AND ABSENTEES

Some war-stained Evesham “Tommies” write us a letter as follows:

A WORD ABOUT EXEMPTIONS

We have received a letter signed “Some Married Men from Evesham,” written from a certain barracks in this country, in which the writer says: