GIRLS TO REGISTER

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 40, 17 February 1943, Page 4

GIRLS TO REGISTER

FOR ESSENTIAL WORK

A NUMBER OP EXEMPTIONS

(P.A.) AyELLINGTON, Tuesday. Girls who nave attained their eighteenth birthday but have not yet reached their twentieth birthday are required to register for work of national importance. Registration must be made before Friday, February 26. . . Girls subsequently attaining the age of 18 or ceasing to be exempted under any of the exemptions provided in Employment Order No. 8, which has now been gazetted, must then register within seven days. Registrations should be lodged with the' nearest manpower officer - The Minister of Industrial Manpower, Mr. McLagan, said more girls were needed urgently to fulfil the needed urgently in order to fulfil the increasingly important part expected of New Zealand in the South Pacific. The greatest care would be taken to ensure that any direction given would not be detrimental to the longrange welfare of the young person concerned. Exemptions under the order were fulltime students at schools, training colleges and univerity colleges; those already registered for work of national importance; those serving fulltime in armed forces, or employed by the army,_ navy or air force; persons in receipt of social security invalids"benefits; inmates of hospitals or the Institute for the Blind; persons within the scope ot the Mental Defectives Act; and persons undergoing sentences of imprisonment or detained in Borstals. There is an obligation .on all employers to see that the registration of employees affected is made.