WAR SERVICE
ENLISTMENT OF WOMEN. EXAMPLE OF BRITAIN MAY BE FOLLOWED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNFDIN, April 28. _ An announcement that the authorities had under consideration a plan to enlist women in the armed forces, as was being done in Great Britain, was made by Major-General Puttick, Chief of the General Staff, in an address tonight. “Women,” he said, “could be employed to operate predictors and other instruments connected with anti-air-craft and coast defence batteries, and so release valuable manpower for’ other duties.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 April 1942, Page 2
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82WAR SERVICE Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 April 1942, Page 2
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