WAR SERVICE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 January 1943, Page 2

WAR SERVICE

SCOPE OF WOMEN’S AUXILIARY

ENROLMENTS IN MASTERTON.

85 REGISTRATIONS SINCE DECEMBER 7.

Enrolments continue to be made freely in Masterton in the Women’s War Service Auxiliary. Since the auxiliary’s office was opened in Perry Street on December 7, 85 enrolments have been made and applications are still coming in. It should be definitely understood that, except those joining up for service with the armed forces, applicants are not required to leave their home town, unless they themselves desire to do so. The Women’s War Service Auxiliary is the central co-ordinating and directing body of all women’s activities in New Zealand and women’s war work and training, including physical training, is being centralised as may be necessary to avoid overlapping. The object of the auxiliary is to get every woman and girl in the Dominion doing something in the national war effort with a minimum waste of time, material and work. The first essential is to get every woman and girl in New Zealand to register, so that the auxiliary may know exactly what they are doing in war work or what they are capable of doing. It is desired that every member who is -able should take a physical exercise: and drill course . This training should also include community singing and'interesting talks. Music should be ■ made use of as much as possible and singing encouraged. There are many avenues of employment open to members of the auxiliary, some of which are indicated: Ambulance section (drivers, first aid attendants, stretcher bearers); general transport and evacuation (drivers, traffic directors); bicycle corps, despatch riders; motor cycle corps; emergency hospital workers, canteen workers, signalling corps, farm work, home gardening (assistance to soldiers’ wives, children and dependents); herd testing; munitions and factory workers; mothers’ helpers, seamstresses and knitters. The amount of time asked of trainees varies according to circumstances.