GIRLS IN OFFICES.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16437, 3 February 1919, Page 8

GIRLS IN OFFICES.

| * j CLERKSHIPS IN CIVIL SERVICE. ' Mr \Y. J3. Leadley, secretary ot the ' Christtihurch branch o- the Returned Soldiers' Association, took the opportunity last evening of replying to vJio. contradiction by Mr Donald Robertson, Public Service Commissioner, regarding girl clerks being employed in Government offices to 1 lie C'-xdusion of returned froldiers. "All I can say," said Mr I.c-adley to a "Press" reporter, ''is either Mr Robertson has misread my statement; or I have l>een incorrectly reported. My statement wjs to tho effect that I had heard of cases where girls had been given employment by Government departments in preference to returned soldiers. In support of that I uould like to inform Mr Robertson that at the present time in Christchurch there is a Government department which during the hut. month ha-s taken on four s-irl clerks, and no application was made to the Returned Soldiers' Association to fill these temporary positions, although anybody who has read t.he papers during the past month must, have been aware of the fact .thati returned soldiers were walking about the streets looking for work. I repeat my previous words, that if the Government departments set such, a bad 6x-< ample what can we csnect private em- i plovers to do?'' * !