TOTAL AUSTRALIAN RICE CROP IS NOW BEING USED FOR ARMY PURPOSES - THE NEED FOR HARVESTING IS ...

Place Oceania: Australia, New South Wales, Leeton
Accession Number 014904
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker McNeil, John Earl (Earl)
Place made Australia: New South Wales
Date made 2 June 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

TOTAL AUSTRALIAN RICE CROP IS NOW BEING USED FOR ARMY PURPOSES - THE NEED FOR HARVESTING IS ACUTE. LAND ARMY GIRLS ARE ASSISTING IN THE HARVESTING OF RICE IN THE LEETON AREA. THIS PHOTO TAKEN AT A NEW SOUTH WALES RICE FARM SHOWS TWO AUSTRALIAN LAND ARMY GIRLS DRIVING AN OPERATING HEADER. MISS ENID GORMAN DRIVES THE TEAM. MISS ETHEL HALL, ONCE LADY'S COMPANION, OPERATES AND SUPERVISES THE FILLING OF THE BAGS.