WOMEN & GIRLS
NEARLY EIGHT MILLIONS. MOBILISED IN BRITAIN. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.22 a.m.) RUGBY, June 28. With the registration of about 300,000 girls of the 1923 Class, the number of women so far registered is nearly eight millions. Mr G. H. Ince, Director-General of Manpower in the Ministry of Labour and National Service, said this brings the total registrations to nearly 23 million men, women and children—just over half the population of the ; British Isles. Mr Ince added that they were at. present interviewing women at the rate of 50,000 a week and placing them in industry, auxiliary services and other women’s services at the rate of 20,000 a week.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 June 1942, Page 2
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113WOMEN & GIRLS Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 June 1942, Page 2
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