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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'.

Identification

Object type
Object Image
Archive
C. E. Warburton Papers
Relation
CA: C E Warburton, Series 2
Date
October 1943
Digitisation ID
2008Pa_WARBURTON-S2_EPH_1580
Held In
"Community Archives"

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Taxonomy

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