GIRLS AS MESSENGERS.
By Telegraph.— Association.—Copyright. London, October 3. The Post Office is arranging to employ girls instead of boys as indoor messengers in the post offices. Speakers at the recent Emigration Conference complained that the Government was turning adrift thousands of boy messengers every year from the Postal Department when they reached the age of 16, and it was suggested that they should bo sent to colonial training farms.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14492, 5 October 1910, Page 7
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