WAR EFFORT

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21221, 18 September 1940, Page 6

WAR EFFORT

WOMEN TYPISTS VOLUNTEER CORPS HELPS WORK FOR ARMY DEPARTMENT One of the most praiseworthy features of the Waikato district’s war effort is the valuable work being done by members of the Women’s Auxiliary Volunteer Corps and several other women's organisations. In addition to the weekly drill to prepare members for any possible emergency, 'the corps has already undertaken actual war work. Unseen by the public, members of the corps have been working providing entertainment for the troops or working for the Army authorities. Last night about 20 of them, together with a similar number of young women from civil service offices in Hamilton, worked for the Army office typing the files for the Fourth Reinforcements of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Army officers stated that without this valuable assistance it would have been almost impossible to cope with the typing, which had to be undertaken because the limited staff at the Army office in Hamilton would have had to be engaged on the task for an indefinite time. All this effort by the young women was voluntary. They gathered in the offices of the State Advances Department, and as a battery of typewriters operated by the civil service women clicked out the work, the members of the volunteer corps called the names which comprised the files. This is not the First occasion on which the Army authorities have had cause to feel grateful for the assistance given them voluntarily by typists in Hamilton. All branches of the Army office have had their co-operation in work which has often reached enormous quantities since the outbreak of war. This assistance has been greatly appreciated by the officers. On one occasion recently, when the staff of the Army office was unable to handle the work which confronted it, a commercial school in Hamilton sent several of its senior girls to assist in the work during the day. On another occasion volunteer helpers worked during the week-end to push forward the typing. An offer of assistance in the clerical work of the Army office in Hamilton has been made by the male staff of one of the banks in Hamilton, the men being willing to help voluntarily in the evenings or at the weekends. £IOOO DONATION AUCKLAND HARBOUR BOARD (By Telegraph.—special lo Times) AUCKLAND, Tuesday The Auckland Harbour Board decided to-day to donate £IOOO to the fund for the relief of air-raid distress in London.