"SIMPLY WENT MAD"
GIRLS IN STATE OFFICES. RECORDS THROWN AWAY. (Press Assn.) WELLINGTON, May 8. Complaints reached both the Public Service Commissioner and the Commissioner of "Police, today, that records containing information of a very private nature had Been picked up on the main streets of Wellington, where they had been thrown from office windows. The matter is viewed seriously. Girl clerks employed in certain Government offices where confidential records are handled are reported to have "simply gone mad" and to have thrown all manner of documents from the windows. Staff members in the Navy and Air Departments are said to have tipped on to the streets numbers of duplicate allotment forms containing the names and addresses of women who receive allotments and tlie amounts -received. Some of these records, were complete sheets and undefaced.
It is reported that allotment cheques too reached the streets, and office boys had a busy time tryintr to sort out the oats from the chaff. They had plenty of winnowing to do in the litter on the streets. Statistical records dealing with the Children's Court and with divorces reached the street from another Government office.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 135, 9 May 1945, Page 4
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