WAR SERVICE FOR GIRLS.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 June 1940, Page 4

WAR SERVICE FOR GIRLS.

A RISING, as it does, spontaneously, a movement by Masterton girls to set up a Women’s Emergency Corps, the membeis of which will apply themselves to useful and helpful community or national service in the period of war crisis, is highly creditable to its promoters and shows that they have a true appreciation of what is best in our traditions as a people. In a project like this, as well as in the battle service ol our youthful manhood, on land and sea and in the air. an answer appears to charges and laments that the youth ol our nation has lallen awav from the standards that ruled in happier days gone by.

From particnlars of the preliminary organisation ol the Women’s Emergency Corps given in our news columns today it may be seen that the promoters ol the movement are woiking on practical and helpful lines and that their essential aimjs to he of service to the community in days ol great need. I he> are confident that other girls in. considerable numbers will join the corps, engage in training ami undertake the tasks that are proposed. The aims ami objects of the corps are well considered. Giving effect to these aims and objects, its members will be able to render acceptable service in conditions that exist already or are bound to arise. In the extent to which war demands ami war effects in this country are intensified, a body of girls organised on the lines proposed will be able to render even more valuable and important service to their country. The spirit manifested in the formation of this organisation, with its generous offer of youthful strength in furtherance and support of the national cause, is to be saluted and admired. It is the spirit demanded of all sections of the population of this country in order that the peace and security that were formerly enjoyed may be re-established.