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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
Digitisation ID
2008Pa_WARBURTON-S2_EPH_1580
Title
'Join the Women's Land Service' poster
Relation
CA: C E Warburton, Series 2
Held In
Community Archives
Archive
C. E. Warburton Papers

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Creation

Created By
Place
Palmerston North
Date
October 1943

Object rights

Credit Line
Palmerston North City Library

Taxonomy

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