TOO MANY STILL IDLE
AUSTRALIA’S ITT WOMEN Sydney, Aug. 28. I here were still too many tit women in Australia not actively engaged in useful war work, the Minister for Air, Mr Drakeford. said in Canberra. Ten thousand Australian women had already joined the W.A A.A.F., but thcr e were still too many women outside the service who could make a far more valuable contribution to the war efTort than they had done yet. Last December, there were in Australia 220.000 women between the ages of 18 and 45 not employed Even now. many were not engaged in useful war work, although they were of an age. education and health standard to fit them for service in the W.A.A.A.F.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 3 September 1942, Page 3
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