AFTER THE WAR.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 8 September 1916, Page 2

AFTER THE WAR.

"What are the girls at present taking the place of men who are away going to do in the immediate future?" was the question propounded by Mr. G-. M. Thomson, reports the "Olago Daily Times," at a meeting of the Y.M.C.A. Fifty thousand men, he said, were coming back and it was the duty of the community to the men who had risked their lives to give them the fiirsc opportunity of jgietting into employment again. This remark elicited applause from the meeting. Proceeding, Mr. Thomson said he was ; .n the Union Stemshipa Company's office in Wellington a month ago. tie saw a number of ladies attending to die public and to the younigi lady who gave him his ticket he said: "What are ycu young ladies going to do when the boys come back from the war" "Oh, we're going to marry them," replied the lady who added: "We wouldn't marry the blighters who won't go." At any rate, said Mr the problem was a serious one and he threw it out because it was a matter that the association, among others, would have to face. He believed the combined wisdom of—the women of th e country would do more for the settlement of the problem than anything else. The women would use their influence in the direction of securingthose wise measures that would tend to a satisfactory solution of tne difficulty. It was a national work, an Imperial work, and above all, a Christian work. At a later stage of the meeting Mrs. Park expressed the hope ;hat the girls now earning good wages ,vould net waste them on frivolities and vanities. Miss Callencer also had a word to say. She counselled thrift. Many girls were now receiving high wages. Let them save all they could, and when the timo came for them to relinquish their good positions, they would do so with less discomfort than if they had spent their earnings uselessly.