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Description

This small 'posterette' encouraged young women (from 17 years of age) to join the Women's Land Service (WLS). The woman is wearing a standrd issue working hat, shirt and overalls, and happily drives a tractor while waving her hand in the victory sign. This poster was displayed in 225 railway stations throughtout New Zealand.The WLS was the largest of the women's war services, with 2,711 'land girls' placed on farms. Hundreds of women also served unofficially on family land.From the archive of 'C E Warburton'.

Tautuhi

Momo rauemi
Object Image
Pūranga
C. E. Warburton Papers
Pākanga
CA: C E Warburton, Series 2
Date
October 1943
Tautuhi matihiko
2008Pa_WARBURTON-S2_EPH_1580
E puritia ana ki
"Community Archives"

Ngā rauemi e whai pānga ana

'Join the Women's Land Service' pamphlet
New Zealand Women’s Land Service Handbook of Information
Linton Army Camp dance invitation
'Tito Partisan's Ball' card
Commemoration of the Battle of Britain invitation
28th Māori Battalion Ball invitation
Manawatu Land Service Club
'What to do in an Air-Raid or Bombardment' leaflet
Gate pass to enter Palmerston North Military Camp
Emergency Precautions Scheme compulsory training programme letter
Women's War Service Auxiliary arm band
National War Savings leaflet

Pūnaha whakarōpū

Ngā tūtohu
archival documents,
community archives,
war on the home front,
women,
women's land service,
workers,
world war two,
Tūtohu Hapori

Tuku kōrero mai mō te whakararu

Ngā rauemi e whai pānga ana

'Join the Women's Land Service' pamphlet
New Zealand Women’s Land Service Handbook of Information
Linton Army Camp dance invitation
'Tito Partisan's Ball' card
Commemoration of the Battle of Britain invitation
28th Māori Battalion Ball invitation
Manawatu Land Service Club
'What to do in an Air-Raid or Bombardment' leaflet
Gate pass to enter Palmerston North Military Camp
Emergency Precautions Scheme compulsory training programme letter
Women's War Service Auxiliary arm band
National War Savings leaflet