WOMEN'S WORLD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 136, 10 May 1945, Page 7

WOMEN'S WORLD

(By "Nanette.")

Mrs S. Birchall, of Palmerston North, is .spending a few weeks' holiday in Gisbornc. Out of Britain's 17,000,000 • women it has been recorded that 7,000,000 took np full-time war work, another 1,000,000 worked part-time and more than 1,000,000 did voluntary work.

.WOMEN'S WAR WORK

■ LADY NEWALL'S INJUNCTION. (Press Assn.) WELLINGTON, May 9. "There can seldom have heen a day of greater universal rejoicing than this in the history of the civilised world," says Lady Newall in a message to the women of New Zealand. rr New Zealand women in this Dominion and overseas fully share in the relief and happiness of this day of victory over all enemies in Europe, when unconditional surrender has at last been accomplished. During the past live years many New Zealand women, a high proportion for such a small population, have seen their sons, husbands, fathers and brothers join the Fighting Services and Merchant .Navy, and 'leave these shores for varying periods which in some cases exceeded four years. Each one of us is proud to,know that by their valour New Zealand's fair name stands higher than ever before. Men and women, both pakeha and Maori, have been comrades in arms on every battle ..front, and by their prowess at sea, on land and in the air have proved their loyalty to the Commonwealth and Empire. "You who have served here at home have done your various jobs will, have packed Keel Cross St. John patriotic parcels which saved the lives of many prisoners of Avar, and have performed the manifold emergency tasks which were set you by the needs of the war, so that you can face with clear consciences those who return from battle. "Jf there are any women or girls who di*i not do their fair share, they can still prove their worth now in the coming months. For, though we can rejoice today wholeheartedly with our sisters at home and overseas, nevertheless we realise that war tasks must still go on without respite till Japanese aggression is as thoroughly crushed as the aggression of Germany. Let us do what will help most and do it diligcntl.y with all our might, and thus safeguard, in so far as in us lies, the future freedom and wellbcing of our homos and our children to the banishment of false materialistic ways of life, to the destruction of wickedness and vice, for a better world of truth, order, and Godliness.