First Woman C.O. Objects To Work In Soap Factory
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, This Day. A woman, selling soap in a department store, pleaded conscientious scruples against wrapping it in a factory, when she appealed before the Manpower Committee against a decision of the Lower Hutt Manpower Officer.
Appellant objected to being deflected to any industry, claiming the right to choose her own occupation. The appeal was dismissed. The appellant. Mrs G. J. P. Shaw, had refused to report for work at a soap factory- She said soap-making might seem quite harmless, but glycerine. which was a by-product, was used in high explosives. Her husband was in a defaulters’ detention camp and she held similar views. She objected to being directed to any kind of wrok.
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Northern Advocate, 14 August 1942, Page 6
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