GIRLS IN DEMAND
WORK FOR 'THE DURATION"
The number of men who have bj2n drawn from civil life for active service has created the necessity, as was the case in the last war, for their replacement by women. In business houses this measure was adopted in numerous cases at a comparatively early stage after the outbreak of hostilities, and now the Government finds ilielf compelled to follow a similar course, says the "Otago Daily Times."
Fourteen girls have been engaged for the duration of the war to fill various minor positions in the Chief Post Office in Dunedin. They are being trained in such branches of the service as registration, delivery, parcels, foreign mails, money order, "phonogram" (the department which takes telegrams over* the telephone), and the telegraph operating room. The indications are. however, that no increase in the number of women engaged in the Post Office will be necessary in the immediate future.
Bank staffs, too, have suffered, particularly in the last few days as a result of men going into camp. One banking house, for example, has had to increase the number of its female staff from two to ten.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 8, 10 January 1941, Page 4
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192GIRLS IN DEMAND Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 8, 10 January 1941, Page 4
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