EMERGENCY CORPS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 July 1940, Page 6

EMERGENCY CORPS

MASTERTON GIRLS’ ACTIVITIES. CLASSES START NEXT WEEK. The Women’s Emergency Corps, which was set up recently by the business girls of Masterton and district as a contribution to New Zealand's war effort, is now earnestly engaged in promoting its various activities, which are to start next week. From Monday next classes will be held in the Central School Assembly Hall. Already the corps has a members'iip of 175 and it is expected the 200 mark will quickly be reached. Those wishing to join the movement are urged to do so immediately, as the classes commence next week and it will not be possible to cover the same ground twice. Intending members should communicate with the secretary, Miss M. Holdsworth, c/o P.O. Box 448, Masterton, or ring 1733 between 8.30 a.m. and 5 p.m. and after 5 p.m. phone 2681.

First-aid classes will start at the Central School Assembly Hall on Monday at 6.45 p.m. An hour each will be devoted to theory and practical work and each girl is asked to bring two triangular bandages 40in by 40in (soft calico washed and cut diagonally). The drill class will commence at the same place on Wednesday next at 7 p.m. and the mechanics class on the same night at 8 o’clock, those attending the latter section to bring a notebook and pencil. It is of interest to note that 80 girls have already agreed to take the courses in first aid and drill and 115 in mechanics.

Enquiries are still being made relative to the growing of produce and securing a suitable area of land, of four or five acres, for that purpose. Two or three oilers have already been received and are under consideration, but as it is desired to secure the most central site possible and the best land available the organisers would be pleased to hear of any other areas that might be used, before a final decision is made. About 50 girls have agreed to take part in this phase of the organisation's activities.