Factory Girls Wanted
So acute has become the scarcity of female labour in the clothing industry in Auckland that girls are being offered as high as £3 5s a week, which is 15s more than the award rate, to act as machinists. Advertisements have appeared offering employment to machinists at £3 5s a week. Girls have also been offered; 25s a week 40 start as apprentices, although the award starting rate is 17s 6d.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20024, 24 August 1939, Page 4
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74Factory Girls Wanted Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20024, 24 August 1939, Page 4
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