SERVANTS FOR WAR WORK
To Be Taken From Big Houses LONDON. Aue-ust 12. The Ministry of Labour will purge servants from big houses throughout Britain, states the “Daily Mirror. When young servants register the Ministry will write to employers asking for reasons why the girls should remain in domestic employment. The Ministry has decided that no healthy woman is too old at sixty to do a job which would release a young girl for war work. The “Dally Mall” states that because labour is becoming scarce London women are being taken . om nonessential industries and put Into urgent war work. A pool of older women willing to work part time is being formed. NO PAMPERING A Nazi airman baled out somewhere in Yorkshire. He was captured by a farmer and two of his labourers who were in the Home Guard. They took the airman to the nearest police station. “Would you like a drink of tea?” the police officer asked the airman. “No, thank you. I prefer coffee,” replied the German. “Well, tha can tak it or leave it,” chipped in the farmer, with a glare in his eye. “We aren't makkin’ coffee specially for thee, not at this time o’ neet.”—Lucio, in the "Manchester Guardian.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CL, Issue 22042, 15 August 1941, Page 3
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206SERVANTS FOR WAR WORK Timaru Herald, Volume CL, Issue 22042, 15 August 1941, Page 3
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