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Land Army girls employed at the Drouin flax mill, Drouin, Victoria

Fitzpatrick, Jim, 1916-

 

"U429/17. Land Army girls are employed at the Drouin flax mill. These two pitch flax over to the processors as it comes in. The girls get 3 pound ten shillings a week - about 75% of wages paid to men for the same work. Land Army girls are recruited from city and country; most work on farms." --Printed on label.; Title devised by cataloguer from caption on label.; Condition: Good.; Part of the collection: Drouin town and rural life during World War II.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an24345444.

 

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Uploaded on September 23, 2011
Taken sometime in 1944