SPARE TIME WORKERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 November 1943, Page 6

SPARE TIME WORKERS

HELPING TO MAKE BRITISH MUNITIONS. Not only full time war workers in Britain arc making munitions. Many employees in oilices and shops now give one or two evenings a week to working in ;l factory. Recently, when some firms making small parts for big bombers made an urgent call for spare lime workers, the response from members of the 8.8. C. was on such a scale that the workshop was brought to the 8.8. C. And now, In one of Ils buildings, the staff, men mid women alike, are'helping to bomb Germany quite literally. From sever! to ten o'clock on any evening of the week, fl. f;< poi:i;;ble to see people whose rogiilar job may be producing programmer,, translating foreign broadear.la, cecrcturinl work or messagecarrying, rJI.Hn/; side by side at the bum’ll mid, screwdriver or oiling brush in hand, miimmbling small electrical ac('csfioriej! for Hie outfitting of bomber aircraft, A high 8.8. C. official—a controller him been seen to glow with pride v/lmn praised for a neat bit of rniwcmldy Involving six or seven tricky operation/!, Thu men complain that the women can beat them in output becmr/o they can better handle some of Hie liny screws and washers.