Dagging, Tailing, Shearing, Mustering, Ploughing

Dagging, Tailing, Shearing, Mustering, Ploughing

Talk

Past event

Philip Carter Family Auditorium

Free

During World War II, more than 4,000 New Zealand women, including artist Juliet Peter, took over the essential farm and station work of the 28,000 men required for military service.

During World War II, more than 4,000 New Zealand women, including artist Juliet Peter, took over the essential farm and station work of the 28,000 men required for military service. This talk by author Dianne Bardsley (The Land Girls: In a Man’s World, 1939-1946) highlights the contribution of the Canterbury women who became land girls, and their links to the Suffrage Bill which became the 1893 Electoral Act almost fifty years earlier.