WOMEN'S WAR EFFORT

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 115, 17 May 1941, Page 9

WOMEN'S WAR EFFORT

SPECIALISED WORK FOR R.A.F.

Rec. 1.30 p.m.

LONDON, May 16

"The Times" aeronautical correspondent states that the degree to which woman-power is swinging into the war effort is illustrated by the decision to train selected members of the W.A.A.F. as flight mechanics and riggers for R.A.F. squadrons, enabling the release of men employed in maintenance and repair crews. It is intended to experiment with the employment of women on balloon barrages and the skilled job of parachute packing, and it is also proposed to employ women as instrument repairers, electricians and radio operators. WESTMINSTER'S SCARS OFFERS OF ASSISTANCE British Official Wireless. Rec. noon. RUGBY, May 16. Offers to assist in restoring the buildings destroyed at Westminster during the recent raids come from Oxford and Australia. The Oxford Union has decided to offer the Speaker of the House of Commons its dispatch boxes to replace those destroyed in the recent raid on London. The Oxford boxes are 118 years old and were used by Gladstone and Peel when they went to Oxford. They are facsimilies of those which are in the House of Commons. According to a Press message Senator Foil announced yesterday that huge beams of Australian hardwood were to be offered by the Government on behalf of the people of Australia to help repair the roof of Westminster Hall. Although the actual work cannot be undertaken until the end of the war an earlier start will be made on fashioning the timbers if the offer is accepted.