WOMEN'S NATIONAL RESERVE.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 April 1916, Page 5

WOMEN'S NATIONAL RESERVE.

A SCHEME UNDER WAY. TO SOLVE THE EMPLOYMENT •PROBLEM. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Representatives of the Women's National Reserve discussed to-day, with the Minister of Internal Affairs an arrangement for a national register' of wemen. The Minister stated subsequently that the executive promised to submit a definite scheme for his consideration. The Reserve -would undertake preparation of the register, with the object of providing women who are prepared lo take the places of men required in the forces. "The first part of the scheme," he said, "will be to provide thoroughly efficient and certified lady stentographers, typists, anil clerks, who will be able to take the places of men leaving for the front. This will be of material assistance to those employers who have shown their patriotism by allowing members of their staffs to enlist, and, an even more important consideration, will release men who have been-un-ablc to enlist owing to the difficulties they would create for theii employers. Details of the scheme will be worked out within, the next few days. Provision will be mode for the issue of certificates of efficiency to registered women, through, a properly qualified examiner, who will probably be a public officer. It is probable that the formation of training classes on a larger scale than has yet been attempted will be undertaken. Women, of course, are not going to work in honorary capacities. They will be paid at current rates by their employers, and the scale of "wages will be drawn up by Jhe national reserve for their uses."