OBJECTION TO WORK
ATTITUDE OF TWO GIRLS
Two young domestics, .Edna Hick; ton and Alice Max, appealed against the action of the Hamilton manpower officer in directing them to undertake essential work before the Auckland Industrial Manpower Committee last week Miss Hickton wrote stating that she had offered to join the Army. I will go nowhere else,” she said. You can do what you like with me She said she was at present unemployed. The appeal was dismissed, and the chairman, Mr J. Liddell, strongly advised appellant to go where she was to go,” said Miss Max when her appeal had been dismissed. She said she also had applied for a position in the Army and would sooner go on the land than take up the domestic work to which she had been directed. . . . The chairman said other authorities would take the matter up if the appellant persisted in her attitude.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 August 1942, Page 7
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