GIRLS FOR FORCES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 73, 3 July 1942, Page 5

GIRLS FOR FORCES

EMPLOYERS CONSIDERED

ESSENTIALITY OF WORK

Although there is at present a definite call for girls to join the army and naval services, and also for war industries, employers need feel no apprehension that girls will be indiscriminately taken from their present occupations to the embarrassment of their employers without an opportunity being given to appeal, stated Mr R. W. Chappell, district manpower officer for the Thames Valley, Waihi, and Coromandel Peninsula districts. "Regulations are to be brought down shortly to deal with the wholesale entry of female workers into the army," explained Mr Chappell. "Any girl may apply for admission into the forces or war industries, but each case will be fairly considered, and no girl who is do-i ing essential or semi-essential work for her employer will be permitted to leave lier work. All women de-j siring to serve in the armed forces must enlist through the district branch of the Women's War Service Auxiliary. And, on completion, the application forms are forwarded to the district manpower officer by the various committees of the W.W.S.A. The duty of the district manpower officer is to consider the desirability or otherwise of the girl being accepted into the armed forces, having regard to the occupation or industry in which she is already em-< ployed.*'