GIRLS IN OFFICES.
♦ ■ CLERKSHIPS IN CIVIL SERVICE. (SPECIAL TO "THE PRESS.") DUNEDIN, January 29. Mr Donald Robertson, Public Service Commissioner, who is at present in Dunedin, gives an emphatic contradiction to Mr W. E. Leadley's statement regarding clerkships for returned soldiers in the Civil Service. Mr Robertson says that every civil servant who left for the front had a promise that his position would be open to him on his return, and this undertaking is being faithfully carried out. In an interview with a "Press" representative on Monday .Mr Leadley, who is secretary of the local branch of tho Returned Soldiers' Association, said: "I have heard of cases of men previously in the Government service who are coming back and finding that as girls are in their old positions there is no place for them. .That state of affairs is, I- think, more due to the heads of departments than to the Government itself, but if the Government does not set an example, can we expect private employers to do?"
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16434, 30 January 1919, Page 6
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170GIRLS IN OFFICES. Press, Volume LV, Issue 16434, 30 January 1919, Page 6
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