"WOMEN LOVE DRILL"

New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24070, 15 September 1941, Page 2

"WOMEN LOVE DRILL"

MILITARY ADVISER'S VIEW "The thing that interests mo most about women in the services is that, they love drill; there is nothing they like better than being put on the square to drill under a real hard sergeant-major," said General Sir Guy Williams, military adviser to the New Zealand Government, in an address to the New Zealand Club in Wellington on conditions of life in England during the war. For women in the army, said General Williams, saluting had at first been voluntary. It was found that the young, good-looking subaltern got a salute, but the older officer, anxious to get a salute so that he could return it, received none. So it was made compulsory. A lot depended on uniforms. The best one in appearance was that of the Women's Fire Service in England, a dark blue with a thin red Tine. The Auxiliary Territorial Service had the khaki of the army.

Referring to the compulsory calling up of women in age groups in England, Sir Guy said, amid laughter, that he did not agree with the employment of women as porters. He usually _ found that be gave the woman porter sixpence and still carried his own bag.