UNEMPLOYED SOLDIERS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 22 May 1919, Page 5

UNEMPLOYED SOLDIERS

CHRISTCHURCH, May 21. At the meeting of the Canterbury District Repatriation Board to-night Mr Leadley, secretary of the Returned Soldiers' Association, entered an emphatic^ protest against the retention of girls in positions previously filled by men who had gone to the front, and who were now in need of employment. He particularly mentioned in this connection the hospital board and various banks, and a deputation was appointed to wait on the various public bodies and institutions in connection with the employment of women, with a view to having them replaced by returned soldiers.