WORK FOR GIRLS.
EMPLOYMENT AS TELEGRAPH OPERATORS. INFLUENCE OF THE WAR. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Nighi. To fill vacancies in the Post and Triegraph 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 IS and 21 years of age willing to undergo tuition hi telegraphy. At Wellington sufficient are,-forthcoming to enable the establishment. of an instruction class of fifty selected candidates and within six months i.his number of young telegraphists will be available to fill gaps. To start they will be paid £4O per annum and on appointment to %, country centre they will receive £SO and a lodging allowance of £2B. Boys who are being put tn are taken from thr. 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 lias been in existence for some time, and thev have been turned out as fairly capable operators at the rate of fifty every two months.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 May 1916, Page 8
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183WORK FOR GIRLS. Taranaki Daily News, 23 May 1916, Page 8
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