WOMEN CLERKS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12748, 18 September 1919, Page 7

WOMEN CLERKS.

PRE-WAR PERCENTAGE AT POST OFFICE. NcrP 16 Christchurch. Post and Telegraph Offace has dispensed with the last of the women employees brought on specially to fill war time vacancies. About fourteen were dispensed with at the en “.°f February, and others since then. there are still many women employed m the Post and Telegraph Department, and the question of whether they should bo retained is complicated, by the fact that they are permanent employees, and on the superannuation list. * n delivery branch of the Post Ufliqe there is a very happy state of airairs as far as men are concerned. ior there arc forty returned soldiers on the start, including permanent officers who have returned, and temporary men who have been put on. The work of tetter carriers in the preparation of the electoral rolls has resulted indirectly in tne employment of returned soldiers. ■ he work has been very faithfully performed, and the registrars regard themselv.es as in clover.” The work has been extensive, but it is nearing completionlt has included parts of Ivaxapoi, Avon, liiccarton and Lvttelton (on the city side of the hills), ns well as the city electorates.