PHONE GIRLS FOR U.S. NAVY
Many Applications
Received
Christchurch girls have not wasted any time in seeking an opportunity offered them to work with the United States Navy at the Advance Antarctic expedition base at Harewood.
Asked by a reporter yesterday afternoon if an advertisement for two telephone operators in ‘‘The Press” in the morning had brought any result, the United States Navy senior resident officer (LieutenantCommander J. Lynch) replied: “Good God. You’re the first man I have talked with all day.”
How many girls had applied? he was asked. After counting he answered: “Twenty—so far.”
He then said, in answer to a question about selection: “We are going to interview them all first; we are going to pick out goodlooking ones.” Commander Lynch said the telephone operators would also be receptionists and would be required from September 1 to March 30 next year when the 1959-60 phase of Antarctic work closed. There would be two shifts worked, the first from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. and the second from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m.
The girls would not be the first New Zealand labour the expedition had employed in its headquarters, for there was already a full-time janitor on the payroll, he said.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28973, 14 August 1959, Page 10
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