HER WAR EFFORT

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 270, 13 November 1943, Page 6

HER WAR EFFORT

MRS. DREAVER'S JOB

POSITION WITHOUT SALARY

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WHANGAREI, this day

Discrediting current rumours con--1 J cerning a salary accompanying her " I appointment as liaison officer be- ' I tween the Government and the ' i Xational Service Department, Mrs. j M. Dreaver stated at a conference of W.W.S.A. members at Whanga- " rei that her work was entirely j voluntary. "It is my war effort," Mrs. Dreaver explained. "Someone ' had to do the job, and the Govern- . ment had to have an experienced , person, so I volunteered. I don't • receive one penny in return for my services." Mrs. Dreaver explained that under I the Electoral Act a member of Parliament for 12 months after being defeated at the polls could not be 1 appointed a public servant. More than 60 per cent of the 5000 suppliers of cream in Northland had either daughters or land girls working on their farms. More elasticity should be allowed, she said, to the regulations governing land girls' employment in the north. Farmers must have men to do certain heavy manual tasks, and it was imperative some men be reI leased from the Army for this work, which land girls were prohibited from doing. She suggested that women should try wooden sabots (clogs) instead of gumboots, as they were quite serviceable.