BUSY CLERKS.

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3059, 30 September 1933, Page 7

BUSY CLERKS.

THE WORLD CONFERENCE. Behind the scenes at the World Economic Conference at London twenty girls in green overalls worked at top speed preparing statements for circulation among the delegates. In the thirty-eight working days of the Conference, they typed and rolled off some 2,000 stencils, put out some 2,000,000 copies, used more than 1,000,000 sheets of typing paper, and turned out some eight tons of communiques . None of the delegates ever saw them and probably few realised what an enormous amount of work and clever organisation was needed to get copies of all reports and communiques circulated without delay. Often several translations had to be made before duplicating could be started, but on one or two occasions English and French translations of the communiques were ready before the delegates had left the meeting room. The busiest day was when the Economic Commission’s final draft report had to be got out. It amounted to 45 stencil sheets in English and as many more in French. But it only took the girls in green five and a-half hours to make 150,000 prints and to circulate a copy in a special envelope to every delegate.