Exemption Of Women In 22-23 Age Group Explained

Taranaki Daily News, 27 August 1942, Page 5

Exemption Of Women In 22-23 Age Group Explained

Exemptions under the Registration for Employment Order No. 4, dated August 3, 1942, were explained by the district manpower officer for Taranaki, Mr. F. H. Muirhead, who said that the order provides that all women who have attained the age of 22 years but have not yet reached 24 should within seven days after the date of the order register for employment. The exemptionps given are: Persons required under regulation 9c of the National Service Emergency Regulations; persons rendering continuous service as members of New Zealand naval, military and air forces; persons employed as civilians in the Royal New Zealand Navy, the Army Department, or the Royal New Zealand Air Force; full-time employees of registered hospitals; persons outside New Zealand; persons in receipt of invalidity benefits under the Social Security Act, 1938; inmates of any hospital or of the New Zealand Institute for the Blind; persons in respect of whom reception orders are in force under the Mental Defectives Act, 1911 (whether or not they are detained in institutions under the Act), or who are detained as voluntary boarders under that Act; persons undergoing sentences of imprisonment or detained in Borstal institutions. If at any time after the date of the order a person ceases to be exempted under the above exemptions, she must within seven days register for employment. Registration in all cases applies whether the persons concerned are employed or otherwise.