Says Women Work Beside Jap. Prisoners
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, This Day. In the House of Representatives yesterday afternoon, Mr. G. H. Mackley (Oppn.—Masterton) gave notice to ask the Minister for Labour (Hon. P. Webb) if he would take steps to protect young women engaged in vegetable production from unpleasantness and embarrassment through, having to work alongside Japanese prisoners of war.
Mr. Mackley said be had been told that female university students recently manpowered to a Government vegetable project at Greytown, were working in the same paddock within a few yards of Japanese prisoners of war.
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Northern Advocate, 15 March 1944, Page 4
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