MORE WOMEN FOR OVERSEAS
MOSTLY VOLUNTARY AIDS
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, Nov. 18. The Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser, announced that 200 women would shoi-tly be selected for service in the Middle East with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force.
“The unit will be entitled the New Zealand Women’s War Service Auxiliary (Overseas Hospital Division),” said Mr Fraser, “and will be largelycomposed of voluntary aids with a small number of women for clerical duties in the hospitals. The work of organizing the unit is being arranged through the Women’s War Service Auxiliary, which is the official Government organization for the co-ordination and allocation of women’s war work. The voluntary aids will be selected by the Order of St. John and the Red Cross Society and the central executive of the Women’s War Service Auxiliary will make arrangements for equipping and mobilizing those selected. “The women required for clerical duties will be selected by the central executive of the Women’s War Service Auxiliary from nominations received through its district committees. Applications will be confined to members of the Women’s War Service Auxiliary and its affiliations and to ensure that the unit will be as efficient as possible the highest standards will be required.”
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Southland Times, Issue 24596, 19 November 1941, Page 6
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