On This Day, 9 June 1916

Birmingham Daily Post

Friday 9 June 1916

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

BIRMINGHAM

Under a committee consisting of Misses Lilley, Orange, Boorne, Wilkes and Wastell, the women students have been organised for agricultural work in the summer vacation. Large numbers have volunteered their services for this work, which will begin as soon as the examinations, now in progress, are finished. The students will be employed at Tardebrigge for strawberry picking, and they will live in tents. At Wick the work in general will consist of hoeing, fruit-picking, hay-making, and harvesting. A cottage has been provided for the accommodation of the volunteer workers. Some will find employment at Studley Agricultural College, and others in the Birmingham area. The latter work will be under the direction of the Birmingham Land Committee. The workers will live at home and proceed to the various farms daily by cycle or omnibuses, which will pick them up in various groups.
The Vice-Chancellor is organising the men students unfit for military service for work of a similar nature.