GIRLS BEAT THE MEN

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 28, 27 October 1932, Page 13

GIRLS BEAT THE MEN

Work at Dog Totalisators Twenty-four Liverpool girls who were once clerks, typists, and private secretaries in city offices, where there is no longer any work for them, have solved the unemployment problem in original fashion. Undaunted by the criticism of their friends and the fact that they are venturing on one of man’s exclusive preserves, the girls are now all working in the giant totalisator which stretches half the way round the Stanley greyhound racing track —and they are doing the work better than men. This is what Mr. A. Warne, who is at the head of the Stanley totalisator staff of 90. says:—“lt was quite an innovation to introduce girls to this work, but in many cases they have proved themselves far more satisfactory than the men.” One of the girls—Miss Frances Lomax—is the only girl in the country working as a “payer”—a clerk who pays winnings to successful backers. “Miss Lomax is a payer because there is not a bank teller who can equal her in the way of speedy money-handl-ing—and because she can detect a faked ticket sooner than a dog spots a hare,” said Mr. Warne.