GOVERNMENT JOBS OVERSEAS

Wanganui Chronicle, 22 February 1947, Page 4

GOVERNMENT JOBS OVERSEAS

NEW ZEALAND WOMEN. (P.A.) Wellington, Fob. 21. Two young women who have received New Zealand Government appointments in the United States, left Wellington to-night for Auckland, where they will join a plane en route tor America. They are Miss Helen Hampton, Northland, and Miss Billie Gledhill, Khandallah. Both have been working in the Prime Minister's Department in Wellington. Miss Hampton will take up a post as member of the New Zealand Government's diplomatic staff in New York with the rank of third secretary. Her work will be with the United Nations Economic and Social Council, of which the Dominion is a member. As a graduate of Victoria College, Miss Hampton holds a B.A. degree, for which major subjects she studied were economics and political science, with Russian as a foreign language unit. She is a member of the council of the New Zealand Economic Society, and is an old girl of Wellington Girls’ Coliege. . For the past five years Miss Gledhill has been with the Prime Ministers Department. Before that she was working at the Navy office. Miss Giedhill is to join the New Zealand Legation staff in Washington. She is a member ot the Victoria League and was educated in Wellington. Both appointments are for three yeqrs.