Home Guard Rifles Stolen

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 62, 8 June 1942, Page 5

Home Guard Rifles Stolen

The headquarters of the Home Guard at Rugby Park, Hamilton, were entered on Thursday night and some small calibre rilles, with ammunition, are missing. Indications: arc that the thefts were probably the Avork of boys or youths. Investigations are being carried out by the police, tracing all persons known to have been in the vicinity of headquarters, during the night.

Women "Postmen" Nearly 40U women are now employed on postmen's duties throughout the Dominion, and this number is likely to increase rather than decrease. On the heavier city and town deliveries it has been necessary to arrange for three women to replace two men. and sometimes twowomen one man. depending on thet volume el" mail matter handled.. "Postmen" they remain in spite oL" their sex, and some towns are now quite familiar with them. Woman in. Sawmill Instancing the great part that is ''icing taken in industry by women because of war conditions, the sec-* rctary of the Westland Timber Work frs' Union, Mr F. L. Turley, toM Hie Manpower Committee at Greymouth that at Higgins' sawmill, near Ross, Mrs Higgins was driving thestationary engine, and was doing her own firing. She was the first woman to be so employed, on tho West Coast, said Mr Turley, an<l her engine was kept in ns good a condition as any simitar piece of machinery on the "West Coast.