NEW ZEALAND WAACS
COMMANDANT APPOINTED (P.A.) WELLINGTON, this day. The Minister of Defence, the.Hpn. F. Jones, announced that Mrs. Vida Jowett. Wellington, had been appointed commandant of .the New Zealand Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, the new branch of the army to which women recruits will belong. The new commandant and her staff will have offices at army headquarters. Up to the present, said Mr. Jones, women taken into the army had remained in the Women’s War Service Auxiliary, but the number .to be recruited called for a separate organisation, as in the Wrens and Waafs.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20826, 3 July 1942, Page 5
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