STAFFING PROBLEMS
Enlistments in the fighting forces had greatly lessened the trained personnel of, the Social Security Department, as well as the staffs of other large State Departments, said the Minister/ in Charge of the Department (Mr. Parry). Normally there were between 1100 and 1200 employees in the various office.*? of the Social Security Department throughout the Dominion. It was found today that the number of men fully trained and experienced in the work of the Department was .hardly sufficient to instruct new officers, who were mostly young women. There had been great difficulty in keeping the young women in the head office of the Department in Aotea Quay, because of the distance of the building from the. city centre and the abundant employment offering there at the present time. "With all these difficulties," Mr. Parry added, "there has been little delay in dealing with new applications, and in paying out over £12,900,000 to some 220.500 beneficiaries and pensioners."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 62, 10 September 1942, Page 4
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159STAFFING PROBLEMS Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 62, 10 September 1942, Page 4
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