WOMEN, PREPARE!

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 13 December 1916, Page 4

WOMEN, PREPARE!

iifyINTERNAL AFFAIRS MINISTER'S HINT. MAY BE WANTED TO REPLACE MEN In the course of his address at the meeting of the Auckland branch of the Royaj Society for the Health of Women and Children on Tuesday evening, the .Minister of Internal Affairs (the Hon. G. W. Russell), pointed out that up to the present New Zealand women had not generally been called upon to take the places of men as was the case in England, but we \ver e approaching a time when it might be necessary to approach the women of the country. Up to the present women had only been requisitioned for clerical work, and in the Bank of New Zealand no fewer than 200 female clerks had been employed, while in. the Government departments practically the whole of the work was being done, and done well, by women. The Minister went on to pay a tribute to the preparatory work in this direction which was being done by the Women's National Reserve for that purpose. If it should become necessary to raise the reinforcements from New Zealand, he would have to undertake the organisation of women for such work as the conducting of tramcars and so