... :it the WOMEN WORKING ON CANAL BOATS In the House of Commons, Mr. Thorne asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of War Transport how many canal boats or barges wer e now being used between London and Birmingham; and how many women were working ...

... Illingworth SPURN, Wednesday Spurn 11 miles from the butcher. miles from the doctor, and about SBO miles from the Kiel Canal. women of Spurn run to the top of the hill. So long they're in view we .fell all right, one woman said to me, ' but sometimes ...

... WOMEN ON CANALS The Call for V, (.., 111 trader 'beinel thel' From the fact that boa been an important cap , centre for • century and a, and that women boater' low been familiar in the sti of thit town. It would seam on , surface, at any rate, that 7 ...

... crashlanded. It is now widely feared that the remaining survivors were killed and buried or thrown into a canal. Women get Durham safe-driving awards Two women were amontr the Durham . Post Office motor drivers who yesterday received for safe driving durlna: ...

... League; George Henry Edwards, under-manager, Kingsbury Collieries, Ltd.; Miss Eily Tolley Gayford, principal trainer of women crews for canal boats. Herbert Glover, honorary secretary, Stratford-on-Avon Savings Committee; Arthur Barker Hatton, technical manager ...

... There are 200 0.8.E.s (18 women). 371 11.8.E.s (77 women). and 489 British Empire Medallists (99 women). There are also ten commendations for valuable service in the air. . . A wide variety of people and occupations are covered. Women range from the driver ...

... from-this room and shot' I said ' Why? ' and he replied, ' You missed him, didn't you? ' Canal Women Wanted Women volunteers are needed for training to operate canal boats. Trainees are given control of a pair of boats consisting of a motor boat with ' ...

... Duchess Worked As Bargee PEOPLE IN THE NEWS In its choice of women for canal work, the Ministry of Transport has had expert g-uid&nce from the Duchess of Grafton, who is old canal boat hand herself. Before her marriage to the Duke of Grafton last July ...

... CANAL BOAT Lwomen MRS. R. Currie, who is to supervise the scheme to train women to run canal boats, has herself been in charge of a boat for a year. The type of women wanted, she told the London Star must not be under 20. Younger girls are not strong ...

... bouquet, and Master F. Hefford, who gave Councillor Wibberley a buttonhole. GETTING DOWN TO IT.—That is what these three women of Canal Street, Burton, are doing in more ways than one. While the menfolk go to it at their work, Mrs. J. Bates, Mrs. E. Dawson ...

... Exchange. / 41111 4 . FOR WOMEN 3 ' • • !Suez Canal. --- INTERESTED (Glasgow)—The canal Was constructed by the French engineer and diplomat, the' Vicomte Ferdinand de Lftseps, who , was horn in 1803. Work on the canal was began in 1858 and ended ...

... is called the Venice of Central France,” she writes. There are quite a hundred bridges. Barges pass to and fro along the canal; women do their washing on its banks, and one day, when the German prisoners of iwar were passing along to their work one of the ...