WOMEN HERD-TESTERS

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 139, 8 March 1941, Page 9

WOMEN HERD-TESTERS

Training Of 80 Girls Domin t on Special Service. AUCKLAND, March 7. There has been a satisfactory response to the appeal for young women recruits for the Women’s Herd-Testing Reserve, which will be drawn upon to replace male testing officers called up for service in the Armed Forces. It was stated by Mr. S. J. Sheaf, general manager of the Auckland Herd Improvement Association, that 40 selected applicants had begun a fortnight’s course of training at Massey College on February 27. A similar number would begin a second course immediately after the first one ended on March 13. The New Zealand Dairy Board had undertaken to pay the tuition fees and travelling expenses of those selected for training. Of tho students who were to take the second course, Mr. Sheaf said, 28 had been sponsored by his association, which already had 17 women in its employ as junior testing officers, to the complete satisfaction of members and the management. Of the SO women now training or about to train, the majority would lake up their duties in August.