TWO HUNDRED WOMEN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 November 1941, Page 6

TWO HUNDRED WOMEN

ABOUT TO BE SELECTED SERVICE IN MIDDLE EAST MAJORITY AS VOLUNTARY AIDS. SMALL NUMBER FOR CLERICAL DUTIES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Prime Minister (Mr Fraser) announced that 200 women will shortly be selected for service in the Middle East with the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. “The unit will be entitled the New Zealand Women’s War Service Auxiliary (Overseas Hospital Division),” said Mr Fraser, “and will be largely composed of voluntary aids, with a small number of women for clerical duties in hospitals. The work of organising the unit is being arranged through the Women’s War Service Association, which is the official Government organisation for the co-ordination, and allocation of women’s war work. The voluntary aids will be selected by the National Voluntary Aid Council, from members of the order of St. John and the Red Cross Society and the central executive of the W.W.S.A. will make arrangements for equipping and ‘ mobilising those selected. Women required for clerical duties will be selected by the central executive of the W.W.S.A. from nominations received through its district committees. Applications will be confined to members of the W.W.S.A. and its affiliations, and to ensure that units shall be as efficient as possible the highest standards will be required.”