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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17444, 12 October 1918, Page 8

Although women are not invading merfa spheres to anything like the extent that is reported from older lands (writes our Sydney correspondent), they are yet appearing constantly in Australia in new occupations. We nre now quite accustomed to female bank clerks, barbers, elevator attendants, and so on; The latest to appear in Sydney is the omnibus conductress. The bus is not a favourite or general method of transportation in this city, yet in tho aggregate there are a very largo number o£ bus lines, linking up the various tramways. The proprietors have frequently complained of the lack of adequate labour, and now it scenis to propose to utilise able-bodied young women to collect fares. Recently tho Inspector-general of Police, after carefully considering the matter, granted conductor's licenses to three young women. Thcv aro to work on the Burwood-Sydney motor buses, a suburban line. The proprietors of the line advertised for girls, and received a shoal of applications—so the gentle sex is evidently quite ready for this class of work. 'Hie Inspector-genera] called tho girls before him. when he issued the licenses, and gave them some good advice as to their conduct. He said that if they do tho work satisfactorily they may open the way to the introduction of women into other branches of the great system of transport.