YOUNG WOMEN REGISTER

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 64, 12 June 1942, Page 4

YOUNG WOMEN REGISTER

UNDER the National Service Emergency Regulations fiftyfour young women between the ages of 20 and 22 were called up in the Whakatane district last week and the task of interviewing and classifying them has been proceeding. It has been pointed out that until the whole of this age group has been accunted for the registration of higher age groups will not be called for. The position, at the moment is that the supplies of young women in the first group have not been exhausted, and consideration has not yet been given to the question of further registration of women. According to a statement released in the Waikato volunteers are to be given preference and compulsion is used only where it cannot be avoided. Individual workers cannot be regarded as essential in their present work if substitutes can be found easily for them, but skill must be preserved, and skilled workers are to be transferred wherever possible to work which involves the use of their skill. Also, changes in the relative essentiality of different kinds of work due to developments in the war situation are to be given effect to when transfers are being made. Thus at the present time, defence construction work is given first call on labour resources. Provision has also to be made for the availability of seasonal labour when it is'required.