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(N.Z. Press Aieociation; AUCKLAND, Aug. 29. New Zealand’s biggest trading bank is dismissing all female einployees when they marry. Officials blame the situation on the country’s economic difficulties. The Bank of New Zealand’s Auckland . manager,. Mr M. Shaw, said all female employees of the bank would be
asked to leave when they married because of a recent decision by the bank. “In the country’s present economic conditions we have a duty to provide employment for girls leaving school, rather than for married women," he said.
“At this stage married women already employed by the bank will not be asked to leave, but three girls who will be married shortly will have to go.” Mr W. E. Higgs, staff manager of the Auckland Savings
Bank, Mid his bank reserved the right to dismiss married women.
Women employed in the State Services are not subject to employment policy regulations when they get married. A spokesman for the State Services Commission in Auckland Mid today there was no change in a woman's employment when she married.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31461, 30 August 1967, Page 26
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176SACK AFTER WEDDING Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31461, 30 August 1967, Page 26
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