THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 2, 1940.
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DROPPED HOPPING TO MAKE SHELLS
HOUSEWIVES WILL AID WARDENS
A housewives service
a sys-
Although they are daily being bombed, hundreds of Londoners tem which already has won its who go hop-picking each year spurs in A.R.P. work in London now refuse lo leave Their and elsewhere — is being organis¬ homes, and experienced women
hop-pickers from the Black Couned for work in the Midlands re- try prefer to remain at their gion. benches in munition factories.
The aim of the service is to co-
In Worcestershire, where the operate with the wardens and pickers have camped out each
other A.R.P. workers from with- year, making their job a long holi- day, there is now such a big short-in the home, and to promote a age of labour. that the Women's | feeling of confidence and neigh- Land Army have been called in.
"The usual crowd of hop. pickers from London refuse to leave their homes, and tell us' they prefer to stand by them while the bombs are falling." Mrs. E. K. Coombs, organising eccretary of the W.L.A., Worce- ater, told a reporter. "They say that where there is danger they all prefer to be together.
"They could have peace and quiet out here and be away from the raids. The camps are all ready for them in the hop fields nad orchards, but they won't leave their little 'castles' in London.
"Our girls have just finished the harvest and now many of them are going straight on to hop-picking.'
Mr. E. Griffiths, of Wint Hill Farm, Suckley, Worcs,, who has a machine with 90,000 pieces that picks two-thirds of a cwt. of hops per hour, said: "It is practically impossible to get the old hands to- day.
"They prefer to remain in the danger zones making shells, and I have had to employ girls of the W.L.A.
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