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French Navy
From Our Own Correspondent
New Caledonia, Oct. 5.
NEW Caledonian women volunteers, between the ages of 18 and 45, are being recruited into the French Navy for service overseas. Service is for the duration of the war. They are being enrolled as secretaries, typistes, telephon ists, nurses, drivers, cooks, waitresses and messengers, and if necessary they will also be used to replace men at navy
depots in other branches of the service.
Minimum pay is 2,500 francs (about £l7/10/- Australian) per month. In addi the two lower ranking categories, this French Empire-wide scheme allows for two grades of non-commissioned rank and three ° mc€r grades. =— The motorist’s wife wrote the follow ing note to her boy’s teacher* “Please sir, dont give Johnnie any more sums about a thousand gallons of petrol at one and threepence a gallon. His father couldn’t go to sleep all night through thinking about it.”