QUICK ENROLMENT

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20919, 26 September 1939, Page 5

QUICK ENROLMENT

THE WOMEN OF ENGLAND PART OF EFFICIENT MACHINE Women are enrolling in unprecedented numbers for all forms of national service, stated a London exchange on August 30. Those with specialised qualifications are now coming forward in great numbers, prepared to relinquish their peacetime occupations should the special needs of an emergency call for their technical knowledge. There is a steady enrolment of linguists, the majority with a knowledge of German, who may be needed in certain Government Departments, which will be set up in case of war. A number of women barristers, whose knowledge would be of value in posts requiring the enforcement of war emergency orders, have already enrolled. Other qualified women among recent enrolments are architects, whose knowledge would be of use in the erection of temporary buildings which might be needed if war broke out. Women who would be of service as factory inspectors and food inspectors have also enrolled at the offices of the Women’s Employment Federation Emergency Register. The volume of enrolment has increased tenfold during the last few days. Women who have enrolled and who ire impatient to be accepted for war

work are reminded that it will be some time before any considerable substitution can take place. Those who have enrolled are stated to be excellent material and very few unsuitable women have offered themselves. They are standing by meantime, an ever-increasing army of highly-trained women ready for important work as part of the efficient machine set up to carry on the emergency business which lies behind the waging of a modem war.