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weather, and the distance — three to four miles — of the 

 nursery from the town where the women lived, there 

 being no housing accommodation in the vicinity. The 

 women were paid 12s. per week, free insurance, with 

 car fare home — i.e. practically 13s. per week for a week 

 of fifty-six hours. Extra time on Saturday was paid 

 for at 3^. per hour. The manager stated, as his beHef, 

 that had the weather been more genial last spring the 

 women would have proved more regular in attendance. 

 He stated that he would be able to employ twenty to 

 thirty women from April to October this year (1915), 

 and had no doubt that he would be able to train a 

 good women staff later on. The few women who lived 

 near the nursery and could get home to their meals 

 proved most wilHng, active, and satisfactory workers. 



The above report would appear to place this matter 

 in a nutshell. Generally speaking, throughout the 

 country it has never been approached in a spirit that 

 would spell success. If women are to be employed 

 satisfactorily they must be housed in the vicinity of 

 their work, so that they can, as a rule, get home and 

 have proper meals, and probably attend to domestic 

 duties as well. They will, not unnaturally, require 

 slightly different treatment to men ; but their cheaper 

 wages should make it well worth while to attend to 

 such requirements. 



But employment in the nursery is by no means the 

 only direction in which women can be used in forestry 

 operations. A most crying need is to cheapen the 

 cost of the lighter work out in the woods as well as in 

 the nursery. For with cheaper rates the former class 

 of work will be more efficiently done than is the case 



