VOLUNTARY WAR WORK
NEW SOUTH WALES WOMEN ] ONE MILLION POUNDS SAVED (Rec. 7 p.m.) SYDNEY, June 19. The sum of £1,000,000 has been saved for Australia by voluntary women war workers in New South Wales during the last three years. Announcing this, the Acting Prime Minister, Mr F. M. Forde, said that in one year alone New South Wales workers made more than 500,000 camouflage nets for the a*my, thus saving at least £437,000. Voluntary women workers had also done a tremendous amount of work in packing equipment and supplies and in reconditioning army clothing.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25566, 20 June 1944, Page 5
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