BEAT THE MEN

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 375, 9 November 1932, Page 7

BEAT THE MEN

UNEMPLOYED GIRLS WORK IN GREYHOUND RACING TOTALISATOR. RELIABLE CASHIERS Twenty-four Liverpool girls who were once clerks, typists and private secretaries in city offiees, where there is no longer any work for them, have solved the unemployment problem in original fashion. Undauhted hy the criticism of their friends and the fact that they are V'enturing qn one of man's ' exclusive preserves, the girls are now all working in the giant totalisator Which stretch'es half the way round the Stanley greyhound racing track — and they are doing the work better than man. This is what Mr. A, Warne, wh'o is at the head of the Stanley totalisator staff of 90 says: — "It was quite an j innovation to introduce girls to this work, hut in. many cases they have proved themselves far more satisfactory than the men." One of the. girls— Miss Frances Lomax— is the only girl in the country working as a "payer" — a clerk who pays winnings to successful hackers. , "Miss Lomax is a payer because there is not a bank teller who can e'qual her in the way of speedy money- ■ handling — and because she can detect a faked tieket sooner than a dog spots a hare," said Mr. Warne.