WOMEN AND WAR.

NZ Truth, Issue 685, 27 July 1918, Page 3

WOMEN AND WAR.

Dear "Truth," — In your issue of July 13, I noticed where the girls m one particular Government department were protesting against working six hours a week overtime without pay, and judging by the hours worked by them it would not entail much of a sacrifice. I feel justified m making a few comments on that matter, having just returned from England, and being there a considerable time, am m a position to speak. What impressed me as much as anything I saw was the great part the women are playing m this great conflict. They are engaged m almost every occupation, and m these big factories amidst oil and grease things cannot be too pleasant, but they stick to it, and I fully expect they do not receive as much money as some of our girls here who sit on an office stool all day and have no heavy lifting to do. How many of our New Zealand girls would undertake to work m munition factories if the opportunity offered? .They will not go into the country to work. I would say m conclusion, play the ganie, girls,. you have not been asked to make much of sacrifice yet. If we are to think yo^ have as much grit as the Blighty girls, who intend to stick it to the end, follow the example set by them.— Your3, 6tC - »ANZAC.'! V Invercargill.