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New Zealand Women's Land Army

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The New Zealand Women's Land Army was formed to supply New Zealand's agriculture during the Second World War, with a function similar to its British namesake. The organisation was originally formed in 1940.[1] City girls from the age of 17 and up were "sent to assist on sheep, cattle, dairy, orchard and poultry properties"[2] in response to labour shortages due to the mobilisation of male farm workers. In 1942, the organisation was renamed the New Zealand Women's Land Service. A total of 2,711 women served throughout the war;[3] this made it the largest of the women's services raised by New Zealand during the war. It was disbanded in 1946, following the end of the war.[4]

References

  1. ^ McKenzie-McLean, Jo (25 April 2018). "Land Girls, New Zealand's World War II unsung heroes". Southland Times. Retrieved 7 March 2020 – via Stuff.co.nz.
  2. ^ "The Land Girls: In a Man's World, 1939–46 by Dianne Bardsley". Otago University Press. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  3. ^ Brookes, Barbara (2016). A History of New Zealand Women. Bridget Williams Books. pp. 282–283. ISBN 9780908321469.
  4. ^ White, Tina (11 May 2019). "Remembering the land girls of World War II". Manawatu Standard. Retrieved 7 March 2020 – via Stuff.co.nz.

Further reading

  • Bardsley, Dianne (2000). The Land Girls: In a Man's World, 1939–1946. Dunedin, New Zealand: University of Otago Press. ISBN 9781877133947.
  • Montgomerie, Deborah (1989). "Men's Jobs and Women's Work: The New Zealand Women's Land Army in World War II". Agricultural History. 63 (3): 1–14.
  • Montgomerie, Deborah (2001). The Women's War: New Zealand Women 1939–45. Auckland University Press. ISBN 9781869402440.