AN OPENING FOR WOMEN?
If. as was stated in a news article published on Thursday, a sliortage of tramway conductors is likely to be caused by the steady drain on manpower for military service, the engagement ul women conductors should be considered. Seemingly the Wellington Tramways Department has not so far contemplated this innovation. Why not? It was introduced successfully in Britain during the Great War and has been returned to in the present war. Women bus conductors have been employed in at least one Australian city for sevcial recent years—in peacetime as well as in wartime. For robust women the conductor’s calling is not unsuitable, and the saving of essential manpower would be considerable. The need may not yet be uigent, but the wav to the adoption of the practice should at least be opened. Far better this than any suggestion of shortening the apprentice peiiod for motormen, which, presumably, was fixed in the interests of public safety.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 45, 16 November 1940, Page 10
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159AN OPENING FOR WOMEN? Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 45, 16 November 1940, Page 10
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