WOMEN CHOSEN

Waikato Times, Volume 129, Issue 21599, 9 December 1941, Page 4

WOMEN CHOSEN

OVERSEAS SERVICE 364 WERE NOMINATED DUTIES IN HOSPITALS

The final selection of 200 voluntary aides and clerical workers for service overseas with the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force has been made. Those chosen from No. 4 (Hamilton) military area are M. B. Stapleton, P. G. Seccombe, G. L. Osmond, J. T. Meredith and J. K. Simcock. Six were chosen from No. 2 (Paeroa) military area. They are Clarice V. Riley, M. E. Newmarch, E. J. Carruth, Hazel Bruce, J. Tollerton and O. G. Luxton. The unit will be known as the New Zealand Women’s War Service Auxiliary (Overseas Hospital Division). The selection committee consisted of Miss M. I. Lambie, Director of the Nursing Division, and chairman of the National Voluntary Aide Council; Miss I. Willis, Matron-in-Chief, Army Nursing Service; Miss L. Banks, matron, Palmerston North Hospital; Miss E. Tennent, Red Cross Society; Mrs G. Sarltrop, Order of St. John; and a member of the Women's War Service Auxiliary, central executive. Total of 364 Nominations The final selection of voluntary aides was made from a total of 364 nominations forwarded by the district organisations of the Order of St. John and the Red Cross Society. The organisations were equally represented in the final selection of personnel. The aides are single women who had attained the age of 23 years on December 1, 1941, and had not attained the age of 34 years on the same date. They were required to be the holders of first aid, home nursing, and home hygiene certificates, and to have taken courses of 60 hours’ training in public hospitals. The women selected will be attested lor service overseas with the 2nd N.Z.E.F., and they will be required to serve for the duration of the war and twelve months thereafter’. Selection was based on suitability, personality, general physique, and previous experience, and references as to character were required of each nominee. The women required for clerical duties were selected by the central ! executive of the Women's War Service Auxiliary from nominations re- ' ceived through its district committees. The applications were confined .to members of the Women’s War ; Service Auxiliary and its affiliations. STOCK SALES TOMORROW I The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, draw attention to their Otorohanga stock ; sale to take place on December 10. when they will offer 50 head of catile. together with a similar number of pigs: also to their Hikutaia , stock sale on the same date, when a further 50 head of cattle will be submtted.