WORK FOR GIRLS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 41, 23 May 1916, Page 7

WORK FOR GIRLS.

I EMPLOYMENT as telegraph OPERATORS. Per Press Association. Wellington, May 22. I To fill vacancies in the Post and Telegraph services created by numerous enlistments therefrom, the Department is arranging for the employment of youths and young women. During the past fortnight applications have been invited from young women between 18 and 21 years of age aiding to undergo tuition in telegraphy. At Wellington sufficient are forthcoming to enable the establishment of an instruction class of fifty selected candidates, and within six months, tins number or young telegraphists will he available to fill gaps. To start they will be paid £4O per, annum, and on appointment to a country cenfcre ther will receive £SO and a lodging allowance of £2B. Boys who are being put on are taken from the telegraph branch after learning to send messages at slow speed, when they receive two months’ special tuition before appointment as operators. A large school for boys has been in existence for some time, and they have been turned out as fairly capable operators at the rate of fifty every two months.