GIRLS AS TELEGRAPH MESSENGERS
Sir,—A Press Association message informs us that girls are being employed in Auckland as telegraph messengers. The message adds that they have joined the Telegraph Department because of the shortage of youths arising from the war. But the war situation would not cause a shortage of boy labour between the age of 14 to 18 years. I would suggest that this shortage of boys has arisen owing to the unfair treatment meted out to them by the Government. Their commencing wage is 19s lid week, less tax. This risss in yearly increments of 5s a week until the age of 21. Compare this with the awards of any industry, and it will be found that these award rates of pay offer more inducement to boys than the department. I know a girl of 19, working in an office, earning the award rate of £2 15s, less tax, which is 15s a week more than her brother earns in the Post Office, and he is 12 months older. The postal authorities must know why they are not getting applications from boys for positions in the department.—Yours, etc., DISAPPOINTED. September 27, 1941.
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23447, 30 September 1941, Page 10
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