WOMEN WAR WORKERS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 46, 24 February 1942, Page 7

WOMEN WAR WORKERS

SOCIAL CLUB SOUGHT

The number of women war workers j is increasing i*apidly, and the question! of providing them with a social club, such as is provided for soldiers, was brought before the Wellington Metropolitan Patriotic Committee yesterday in a letter from Mr. G. A. Hayden, secretary of the National Patriotic Fund Board, who stated that her Excellency Lady Newall was interested in the welfare of Women on leave in the various cities. The writer asked the committee to give serious consideration to the need for forming wometfs service clubs in the Wellington Province, comparable with those established for the men of the Forces, and with the addition of a social room where the women could meet their men friends. At present the men's' clubs did not, and probably could not, cater for women workers, with the result that the women now on full-time war work had no other place than hotel lounges to meet friends. • The question of the employment pi women both in the Navy and Army was at present under consideration, and with the W.A.A.F.S, nurses, and V.A.D.s, the numbers in the near future would be considerable. The matter was discussed at length by the committee. Mr. F. R. Jones said that the question of whether all war working women in uniform, or only those in the fighting services, should be admitted was imj portant. ; i Inquiries are being made. Six bananas grown at Cobham, in Surrey, were sold for £9 for the Red ! Cross.