WOMEN TEACHERS
Service With V.A.D. Unit
ATTITUDE OF MINISTER
“Teaching is an essential national wort, and it is better that the V.A.D. requirements, at least for the present, should be met by those who can go .without leaving essential work undone," said the Minister of Education, Mr. Mason, when asked yesterday if women teachers were to be allowed to submit themselves for selection to go overseas with the V.A.D. unit. The Minister said the fact that teaching was an essential work was becoming more pronounced in respect of women teachers by reason of the shortage developing from the enlistment of men teachers.
“The eagerness of many teachers to go as V.A.D.’s is consistent with the bigli sense of duty of their profession,” said Mr. Mason, “but at present they are serving the nation’s need by doing that specialist work for which they have been trained and for which it would not be easy to find substitutes.”
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 50, 22 November 1941, Page 10
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156WOMEN TEACHERS Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 50, 22 November 1941, Page 10
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