WOMEN SUBSTITUTES.
'. RAILWAY DEPARTMENT'S EXn PERIMEINT. {Special to the Herald.) WELLINGTON, this day. The Railway Department is pi?<sably - not willing to publicly admit that, , its 1 experiment m employing womenVjas^sub- - stitutes has not been a success',: But the fact that their numbers are hot to be r increased shows that there are difficulties - m the way. Carriage cleaning was one - of the Women's occupations, but it raised 1 a question of equal pay to that of the , junior male employees of the depart- - ment, and the authorities are not pre- . pared to concede that women are worth as much- as men. m this position. One new avenue of employment for women on the railway has opened up, a small number of reliable women having been engajged to take charge "of the ladies' ' special carriages on the Main Trunk expresses, Five pf these .carriages will come into .commission next week. Women ' porters have been, found extremely use- ' ful m England, but they are not needed ' here, mainly, for. the reason that Eng-lish-railway travellers expect a. number of small attentions which New Zeal anders do; not trouble about. Thus there is only the. heavy platform work left, and for tliis men are most, (suitable.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14473, 7 December 1917, Page 7
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202WOMEN SUBSTITUTES. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14473, 7 December 1917, Page 7
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