WOMEN’S WORLD

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 22691, 20 August 1945, Page 3

WOMEN’S WORLD

(By “Gipsy”)

Mrs C. Hunt, Maraetai, is a visitor to Hamilton. Mrs C. O. McGonigal, Auckland, is visiting Hamilton. Miss J. Colville, Auckland, is in Hamilton. Mrs Scott Colville, Auckland, is visiting Hamilton. .Mrs O. R. Farrer is visting Auckland. , Mrs Cecily Hurst, St. Peter’s School, Cambridge, has left to spend the holidays at ChristchurchMiss Judith de la Mare, Auckland, is spending the vacation in Hamilton. Miss C. Renai, Cambridge, has left to spend the holidays in Picton. Miss Sylvia Rose, Hastings, is spending a holiday in Hamilton. Women Stand Up for Own Rights One thousand women at a meeting at Westminster, London, recently decided to deliver an ultimatum to the new Government. They want the rights of a woman to her own nationality and domicile, irrespective of her husband’s. Equal pay and opportunity, and the abolition of the marriage bar in all Government services. Equal contributions and benefits of all women, married or unmarried, in any scheme of social insurance. Addressing the meeting, Mrs E. M. Braddock (Labour M.P.), elected for the Exchange Division of Liverpool, said: “I am as good as any man.” When Mrs Braddock was a member of the Liverpool City Council, she was “named” by the Lord Mayor for disobedience to the chair, and was escorted from the council chamber by two policemen. An onlooker wrote: “Everyone knew it would have taken more than two policemen if she had felt inclined to resist.” Women Not Yet Replaced by Men So far, in Auckland, few women who undertook men’s work during the war years have been replaced. It is said that the staff shortage in the Post and Telegraph Department .in Auckland is greater than ever, and women are still employed in the telegraph department, telephone exchange, mail delivery, and sorting. As an instance of the staff shortage, the post office, which normally had 60 message boys, now has two and 35 women messengers. Increased business activity has placed extra pressure on the depleted staff and the post office is not yet in a position to restore services which were cancelled during the war. In the Railway Department the postion is similar. Very few women have been replaced by returned servicemen and even when demobilisation begins on a large scale it is expected that the women will still be required for some months. The gaily coloured costumes to be worn by the young performers in the Springtime Victory Revue in the Frankton Town Hall tonight and tomorrow are a credit to the girls themselves, who were responsible for most of the work. For some time they have been preparing for the revue, which is being produced by Miss Alma White and is in aid of the Y.W.C.A. funds. The dress rehearsal in the Frankton Town Hall yesterday promised well and patrons should : be amply rewarded.