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Marriages Cause Shortage Of Clerks In Women’s Army Corps

typists and clerks are urgently jeeaed by the Army for service in the yew Zealand Women’s Royal Army (x>rps. In the South Island women are wanted particularly at Burnham Military Camp to replace those who have jexv recently and those who intend to leava in a short time. At the beginning of December there were six clerk WRAC’s at Burnham but by the second week of next month non e will remain. Most of them will have left to be married to soldiers thev met while serving at Burnham. With no clerk replacements in sight work will have to be done by men. Next week four women will travel frum Burnham to Waiouru in the North Island for a short, but intensive, basic training course. They are Misses J. C. Allen. P. J. Sturge, and M. B. Taylor, of Christchurch, and Miss S. G. Olive, of Invercargill. Recruits being sought by the Army to serve in the corps are permitted to apply the skills they already possess or learn new trades. Ages of enlistment vary from 18 to 35. A wide variety of jobs are offered. Apart from commercial office work, such as shorthand-typing, ledgerkeeping. and telephone operating, there are a number of highly-skilled technical jobs which women undertake. They include draughting, instrument mechanics, small arms ammunitio . inspection and teleprinter operators. Women are also employed as librarians, dental orderlies, cooks, stewards, and storemen.

Women are now an accepted part of the modern New Zealand Army, which considers that the employment of women for work that women can do go that men can concentrate on the jobs that require men is making use of manpower to the best advantage. Employment of women to release men for active service was originally a war measure; but today women are holding down positions which are im-

ant ln J heir own right. In 1942 the corps was founded as an auxiliary: but stature had grown and it was constituted an integral part of the regular force. IJey are attached for duty to any ?L the . elgh . t army corps (ammunition inspectors to the Royal New Zealand Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. eXam -pJ e • or for administrative auties with the women’s corps itself. Women are accommodated at eight Army camps in New Zealand and to be accepted for Army service they m “st be single or legally separated with no dependant children. In towns where there is no service accommodation, women are permitted to live as residents, preferably in their own homes, but in camps they live in well-furnished double or single rooms with individual bedside mats, wardrobes, dressing tables or lowboys, and

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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27877, 27 January 1956, Page 9

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Marriages Cause Shortage Of Clerks In Women’s Army Corps Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27877, 27 January 1956, Page 9

Marriages Cause Shortage Of Clerks In Women’s Army Corps Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27877, 27 January 1956, Page 9

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