PLIGHT OF WOMEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 133, 7 June 1932, Page 9

PLIGHT OF WOMEN.

POSITION AT NEW PLYMOUTH. COMMITTEE'S FINDING CRITICISED. WORK AND HOMES NEEDED. (Prom Our Own Correspondent.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Monday. The conclusion arrived at by the Unemployment Board's committee investigating unemployment among women by means of touring the Dominion and briefly meeting representatives of local relief organisations is not correct, according to the comments of Adjutant S. Green, of the Salvation Army. The committee consists of Mrs. Marshall Macdonald, Mrs. C. K. Wilson, Pio Pio, Miss Carnaehan, Auckland, assisted by Mr. Brcnnan, secretary of the Unemployment Board, and the committee's conclusion, as far as New Plymouth is concerned, includes the statement that there '"is little difficulty in finding work of some eort for those who desire it."

"It shows how little reliance can be placed, upon their report," said Adjutant Green, commenting upon the statement accredited to the investigating committee. "Evidently the commission did not consider the Salvation Army could be of any assistance to it, for we were not advised of their coming or included in the organisations requested to send representatives to meet them. The Army has been running an unemployment bureau for women and girls here, and is: closely in touch with the many problems connected with this question, and we could doubtless have given the committee information that would have surprised them. "I have a long list of names of young women for whom I have been unable to find employment—girls whose position is becoming desperate. Situations are urgently required for office girls, shop workers, factory hands, domestics and others. Young girls, who have left school recently, require light duties, and several young mothers with their babies urgently require homes."