WOMEN'S WORLD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXIV, Issue 40, 15 January 1944, Page 3

WOMEN'S WORLD

(By "Nanette.")

Miss M. Murray, of Chaytor Street, lia.s gone to Wellington to spend a holiday.

Mr and Mrs H. P. Lawry have returned to their home in Victoria Aveue after visiting their daughter, Mrs G. E. Matheson, of Christchurch. Miss M. E. McHardy, supervisor of the Feilding telephone exchange and formerly of Palmerston North, has been promoted to the position of supervisor of the Wanganui exchange.

One of the last great strongholds to open its gates to women workers, the British shipyards, is now employing thousands of them in 114 types of work formerly done by men. Women are building the little ships and helping to build and repair the big ones. They are doing excellent work as electricians, painters, tool maintenance hands, sheetmetal workers, wiremen and in the many other processes which go to the building of ships. In Scottish shipyards the proportion of women workers to men is one in 10 and is increasing. Twenty-eight thousand women have been trained for engineering and many have been found especially suitable as electricians.

The attitude of calculated hatred shown by the women of France toward the German occupation forces has developed into a warfare against which the Nazis have no adequate defence, according to French underground reports. French women trip the Germans in Paris subways, cut crosses of Lorraine in their coats and insult them by refusing offers of seats from 'Nazis who pride .themselves on their correct behaviour in crowded trains. French women also feel it a. point of honour to look well dressed before the hated Nazis, even if it means making frocks out of window curtains or any other material that comes to hand. This annoys the Germans, because', no matter how much they pay for Parisian clothes for their wives, the German women never have the same smart appearance.

Washington.—The Navy Department lias- disclosed that the destroyer sunk by Japanese planes off New Britain on December 27 was the Brownson. There were 298 survivors. The Brownson was a vessel of 2100 tons and was commissioned in February, 1942. _ London.—The raid on Formosa on Wednesday was made bj American Liberators based on China, lie target being a vital aluminium plant. They encountered intense flak but no fighter opposition.