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MAN KILLED. CHRISTCHURCH, November 8. Janies Boyd, aged 63 years, was accidentally killed at Kaikoura at 4.15 p.m. to-day, when the decking of a tip truck, as it was moving forward spreading metal along the drive near his home, caught a stay of the wireless mast, which broke off and struck him on the head. HOSPITAL EMPLOYMENT WELLINGTON, November 8. oi <?o U 1 hundred single women in the ?■ ... , a F e £ r °ups in the Wellington district have already received notices fiom the'Wellington District ManP° v '// Office requesting them to report for an interview with a view to then direction to domestic employment m hospitals. It is anticipated £ a J. 11 T~n ? e ™/ essar 7 to call up a fuither laO to 200 for interview next week in order to obtain the number required for this class of work. We have been very pleased at the mn C ru n + a n/r lot of the giris,” said r P I ?? ri ct Manpower Officer (Mr. M. C Smith). “We felt it would be lostile, but many of the girls who nave already been interviewed have jroved quite prepared to take on the vork as a war effort, particularly I .vhen it was explained that it would I ?e f ß_ r a m , max imum period of 12 nonths. There have also been quite a of volunteers from outside he 21-22 age groups.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 November 1944, Page 4
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