WOMEN TO THE RESCUE

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 145, 19 June 1915, Page 13

WOMEN TO THE RESCUE

RELIEVE MEN FOR WAR SERVICE.

TWO STATION MISTRESSES, ">o." Our l. ;ilJ . v ;. 0 ,,., 5p , ln(loiiu

-I", LONDON. April 10 I** appeal made to women Veen lv UUick aii , service," met with a 1 " lv •"" I Senerous response, as vva, to he expected- and dosi„„ .1 :;»;;,:;;;■ fSSriS ....".r,,;;;:::rr;,,i,dt: »''••"••' -Amongst this number si' lousand have made the suggestion that hego -ed w t ;: n,C " t *«""«! seventeen htC,. »'<d. with some previous necessary ex ■ ■''''"'•• l '<'- have offered t„ ■ i ' I ,-,-,,,„ 1; , .. "" '' * Mcve men Ik ,'n H '"' 7'' k ( '" ilki "S ; ""> ">'d . lour thousand are willing to »„ i„t , ''■I'tary clothing factories; five ~ ~ ;;;. i ;V v : il V; ,, ' ,, ; rt ' ,kp •''"->'-0rk,,,,: factories etc ' '''* '" t " '"""'H

U -»" U was understood by the few j hat the call to the women was prosi'c,-. I've the majority of those who reds tered themselves undoubtedly are d'-s appointed that no notice seems to have >en take, o. their anxiety to help he ir conn try. Those who should know. ei.beless. prophesy that the time is ""t far distant when women will be needed and in great numbers, the,-,, not being a thoughtful indivhlal to be found no* who deludes him ,„- herself into the hope that the war i- likely to be quickly

In the meantime cad, week add, to the number of new trades into which "omen arc being admitted. STATION MI-STRESSKS

A woman, for instance. Miss I'd-ter started duty last week a, st,.tionma.,ter .of Iroedyrhiw Halt, on the join; Great Western and Rhymney Railway, near Merthyr, being the lir.-t woman to act in such a capacity in South Wales. I Another woman is being appointed to take charge of Trelewis -function. The predecessors 0 f both women have joined the Army. WOMAN BREAD DELIVERERS. At a small meeting of bakers held in | one of the b.g London suburbs a few I days ago ,1„. opinion was given that ■omen could materially help recruiting |to the tune of 'hundred-, of men if they | were to come forward and offer to dej iver bread. The work is not considered ! laborious, a light harrow filled with j bread being about the same weight as a baby's perambulator. j WOMEN TRAM CfINDUCTORS. , It is reported that the engagement of I women a. tramcar conductors has proved . a complete success in Glasgow, and thatp more are to be taken on already. In the, fir.-t instance two women who" had had 1 several years' experience on the clerical I staff of the Corporation Tramways De- 1 partment we ro employed a- an experi- i ment. After a fortnight's time, during winch they worked first mi a route with f comparatively little tratlie and after- f ward, mi ~|,,. of the busiest and most s trying one, i„ the system, the manager f icported very favourably on their employment.

led During the past wed; eight other iat | women, none of wh'ftn had any previous uld . experience of tramway work, have been ■>, „ I engaged with equal success. I-'or the ,|(s| tir-t two days of their service they were wn I trained in the manipulation of the'punch j and tickets, and on the following two | day- they undertook duty on the cars Inn ler the supervision of experienced con P- I dilr'tors. then were give,, full charge of . l(l . ! a car. They are supplied by tiie Depart incut with licit navy uniforms and cap ,"' fared with god. Id Women tranuar conductors are al-o l (i , 'a: work in Cardiff ami in Maidstone. In , a i the latter place thrre are a number who are married and whose husband- arc r | presumably, at the war. The Corpora ! | tinn con, erics them exactly the -ame pay I .is their male predecessors. ~ , WOMEN BANK CLERKS. kj No one ever imagined, among tl on- , |, I -ervative ones, th.it the Bank of Ens-1 to '■ 1 "•'■ Gi" '"II l.idv of Threadneedbj ■s. -tiect" would ever break through I a, it- very I'gtd tradition not to admit! ~, women clerks. Vet it did this some time d ago. and in 'he stress of the piesent ■~ time ii I, actually one of the great banks ' :- tile id the way in employing more audi | :::',;e -.vomen clerks, and' at good .alaries. j 1 The "Time-" -tates that banks all i „ over the country are setting free large i , ' numbers of young men. and in one in ~ -tane in a provln.-la: bank, where two I I 'young women had thrown up good ap-I ,d pointment- in London to take over the; o; w,rk of bmk ,-lerk-. their action was -o ' ; much appreciated by the clerk- of a riv.,l ' | bank in the -ame -own that they made! I them a presentation of baskets of flower,- and bove, of chocolate-. Before the), i war the i.ank clerk was very jealous of j - I any attempt at female intrusion. : 1 j WOMEN FARM HELPERS. '■ ' j In the .-..nth and c ist of Luicasliite ' ' \ ' th- farmer- hue already enli-ted the ' ' i services of large numbers of women, and ; ■ _ j i.-poit that they are earning good money j ' , and giving gn-.it sati-factioti-. Farmer- I ' 'state that women ate much to be pre- , I ferred to --hnnlhoys. and are quite cap- , j able of performing field ta.-k.s. even to I driving horse.-. " i "GREEN'WOMEN." ( ' The employment of girls as golf cad j dies is not new to Scotland, and giris are to be found on very course in France: but now they have been introdticerl on one of the biggest courses near; | London. They are also now at work on iI 1 I the courses and greens keeping the links •" in order. a A "COACJIWOMAN" for the North of Ireland has been adver- '• ti.-ed for a: one of the London Labour Exchange-, and one woman at least in ' known to be -n employed near London. ~ I at Taplow. '' IN SHOPS, it might be at first thought, there w.i* I not much opportunity for expansion.,. | save in drapery establishments, where it . | has always been, to a person of any j robustness of mind, a rather revolting ~ thing to sec able-bodied young men serving ribbon-, handkerchief,, buttons, women's shoes, even in corset departments. Since the war -tarted. however, women I have been taken on in the cigar and win,departiiient, of some of the big s-iores. and ill grocers and butchers' shops, ami . they are. of course, often to be found . dispensing in chemist,' shops. . WOMAN MUSIC-HALL MANAGER. sp A Mi-s ( issie Williams, who has „, written aud aded many sketches at ar music halls in London, has been ap- ov pointed manager of the Empire Music- n hall at Camber wall. London. , a SCHOOL ATTENDANCE OFFICER. de Oldham, which made itself famous by pr electing and reelecting a woman Mayor, up has within the pact ftw days appointed wl a woman to the post of echool attend- Xi aaoe officcq nil