TIME FOR REVIEW

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 August 1943, Page 3

TIME FOR REVIEW

EMPLOYMENT OF GIRLS UPLAND AND OTHER SERVICVES.

STATEMENT BY PREMIER.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) . WELLINGTON, This Day.

“The time has arrived when there should be a review of the numbers of girls required in the respective services,” said the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, during consideration of the Estimates of the National Service Department in the House of Representatives last night. The Prime Minister said he had no pre-conceived” views on the matter, but it was necessary to be sure that the girls were employed where they were most useful at a time when the country was in need of manpower. The Prime Minister’s remarks were made following a complaint by Mr Doidge (Opposition, Tauranga) that the land girls were not receiving fair treatment compared with other girls in the services. Mr Fraser said the girls on the land were doing as fine a national service as anyone, and steps were to be taken to try to increase their numbers. They were doing a mighty fine work, and he would give them Al priority, for production was of such vast importance at the preset time. Whatever could be done to support these girls would be done. “It may be necessary.” said the Prime Minister, “to review the respective importance of the various spheres our girls have gone into, but all of them have done a most creditable job.”