Registration of Girls

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 66, Issue 5604, 12 April 1943, Page 6

Registration of Girls

Following the precedent established in Britain, the Taranaki provincial conference of the Women’s War Service Auxiliary held in Stratford decided to recommend the central executive, Wellington, that girls should be registered from the age of 16 years, with the provision that those under 18 years should not be directed to work outside' their own towns, states a Press Association message. The executive is to be asked to forward the recommendation to the Director of National Service, Mr J. S. Hunter. Members were of the opinion that if this recommendation were adopted many employers would be willing to release girls of 18 years and replace them with girls of 16 and 17 years of age. Linseed Oil Opening a linseed oil factory in Dunedin on Saturday morning, the Minister of Supply, Mr Sullivan, said that in 1940 New Zealand imported 962,000 gallons of this oil, valued at £259,000 This year we had 4000 tons of seed from the flax crop and the estimated oil yield was 350,000 gallons, or one-third of the Dominion’s requirements. An important by-pro-duct would be cattle-cake, a valuable concentrate for increasing the product tion of all stock. Reviewing industrial progress over the past seven years, Mr Sullivan said that the Dominion had established on an average three new factories weekly.