ADA REEVE SERVING

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20634, 9 December 1941, Page 2

ADA REEVE SERVING

HELPED ANZACS IN 1914-18 LONDON, Nov. 18. The sense of humour of the actress Ada Reeve lightens the tragic, but not unusual story, of how she has been trying to “do her bit.” Tired of knitting comforts at Blackpool, she applied at the Labour Exchange for a war job, which she thought' she would get because she had, if not youth, at least enthusiasm and experience. After a number of setbacks in this and other applications, at last, through the Mayor of Blackpool, she was given a job as welfare worker at a munitions works, working from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. for £2 a week, plus a six shillings bonus, less income tax. When she said this was not enough, the manager suggested that she should change to a happier job. .Mr. Hannan Swaffer, the London columnist, comments on the story of this woman, who raised many thousands of pounds for the Anzacs in the last war: “This is only one story of thousands vihich I could print. Yet the nation ’still wants men and , -women.”