THE GIRLS MADE WAY.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 19 June 1919, Page 3

THE GIRLS MADE WAY.

Since the war started about 40 girls have been employed in the Auckland Post Office. They volunteered to take the places of men called up for active service, and now most of them have re~ tired from the positions they have been filling in order to allow the men they temporarily replaced to get back into their old billets. This is, of course, a little hard, in a way, on the girls many of whom have displayed great aptitude for the work they have been doing, and some of thorn will, I understand, retain their positions permanently, although not to the detriment of the men. It is the same story in the Banks, One of these institutions has been employ ing about 40 girls, most of whom are now standing aside to make room for the men whose work they have been doing, and doing remarkably well. In this case, also, some girls are to be retained in the service of the Bank, and in that of other Banks and of private offices. While it is quite right and proper, of course, that these female workers should, as a body, make way for the returned soldiers they, for a time, supplanted, something has to be said on their side. Many have lost the men to whom they were engaged, as the result of the war, and must, unless they form fresh ties, support themselves. As one sympathiser points out, " lots of these girls have already made great sacrifices and it seems hard that there should be so much resentment against their resention of business positions."