“ESSENTIAL WORK”
EDUCATION OF YOUNG TEACHERS AND V.A.D’S (Per Press Assioeintlcn.) WELLINGTON, this day. The question of teachers and V.A.D.’s volunteering for overseas service was referred to the Minister of Education, tiie Hon. 11. G. RMason, who replied:— “Teaching is an essential work, and this fact is becoming more pronounced in respect of women teachers by reason of the shortage of teachers from the enlistment of men teachers. As the carrying on of education is essential work, it is better that the V.A.D. requirements should be met at least for the present from those who can go without leaving essential work undone. The eagerness of many teachers to go as V.A.D.’s is consistent with the high sense of duty of their profession, which the country greatly appreciates, but at present they are serving the nation’s need by doing that specialist work for which they have been trained. It would not be easy to find substitutes.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20620, 22 November 1941, Page 7
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155“ESSENTIAL WORK” Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20620, 22 November 1941, Page 7
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