For Women

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 200, 25 August 1942, Page 5

For Women

WOMEN'S SERVICES

RECRUITING question

requirements for forces

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, Monday. Commenting on a suggestion that each service should conduct its own recruiting campaign for women, the Minister of National Service, Mr. Broadfoot, said the main objection to such a course lay chiefly in the fact that the employment of women in the armed forces was not merely the individual problem of the respective th °n e of national concern, ana from the Government's point of I nvfV. be c° ns idered on that • T bave three bodies recruitfor epei ? dentl 7 and competing was undesirable. 0 the p&sonf

rln'TnS fi tv!I S fr 9 m experience gained m A viDluntary enlistment of men, the Minister conitnued, "the Government has sought to ensure a c=m^,H men recr P its are utilised on a sound economic basis, that thev oniv tn i^ lthdrawn from industry ° n 'y to the extent of the requiref th e services, and that they will be employed on duties suitable to their qualifications."

A^ e H res £ onsibility of the Women's Forces Personnel Board, p^l ch comprised a representative of eacn of the three services and of the Vi omen s \Var Service Auxiliary, was to ensure that, while individual prewould be given consideration, the allocation of personnel between the three services - would be in accordance with requirements. Referring to the enlistment contntion that women must be prepared to serve for the duration of the war and 12 months thereafter unless discharged, the Minister said that if a woman enlisted and her domestic circumstances or arrangements changed in a manner which wouJd justify her discharge toe services would favourably consider the granting of her release. This would apply particularly to the wives of soldiers who were serving overseas. If their husbands returned from overseas no difficulty would be placed in the way of those women obtaining discharges. The Minister said it was the policy of the three services, if it could possibly be arranged, to post women to duties as near as possible to their places of rvidence. This did not imply that a woman might live at home, but if she were not living at home she would normally be housed in barracks or some other suitable accommodation provided by the respective services.