Land Girls at the Orchard Building, 1941. R. H. Bevin a Lecturer in Agriculture in the centre at the rear and Matron, Miss Lilburne sitting in the front centre. Moira Douglas (back row second from right) and Jill MacKenzie (nee Sams, back row second from left). 

Short Course innovations in the early war years were those of farm training and tractor driving for women seeking to serve in the Land Army. In 1941 there were 22 women in residence for several months, housed in the new Short Course building (Life & Work at Canterbury Agricultural College p302). 

Participants in the 1941 Lincoln College course for would-be land girls.
Back, left to right: Phyllis Boyce, Patricia Menzies, Audrey Byrch, R. H. Bevin, Shirley Jarman, Joyce Throp, Moya Douglas, Enid Higginson.
Sitting: Ann Gunn, Rima McDonald, Leticia Quaid.
Front: Jill Sams, Mrs Fletcher (chaperone), and Judith McFarlane.