GIRLS IN THE BANK.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11594, 12 January 1916, Page 4

GIRLS IN THE BANK.

AN EXPERIMENT. A'London bank accountant was opening letters of application for posts of women clerks .to nil the places of men who have enlisted. "They are nil 'willing,' " he said to a " Daily Mail" representative". '' trustworthy and reliable,""with "unquestionable references." and all havo been '•' well educated " ; but the faei remains that they do not know much about accounts. An elementary knowledge of these things would make them most valuable. As it is wo have to ''train them oil." / "Women clerks on.the whole are very good," said the accountant. '• On the " correspondence desk ' we find many openings for women in writing 'acknowledgments,' ' ovedraft reminders,' and other things of a more or less routine nature with a common form of wording, but we still find that more particular letters have to be' dictated hy men clerks. For the bankers' clearing we. employ some women in proparing the different bank lists of cheques, and we have one or two who are wonderfully expert on the adding .-Machines- "'' For the rest of routine work I do not doubt that our women clerks will very soon bo efficient. We have one or fwo excellent ymrng women just now whose work I am watching closely because so far as I have seen they seem remarkably quick and able, and I believe they can be eventually put into responsible posts."