Any woman living in a town where there is a Labour Exchange
can register by going there in person. If she is not near a
Labour Exchange she can get a form of registration from the
local agency of the Unemployment Fund. Forms will also be sent
out through a number of women's societies.

The object of registration is to find out what reserve force
of women's labour, trained or untrained, can be made available
if required. As from time to time actual openings for
employment present themselves, notice will be given through
the Labor Exchanges, with full details as to the nature of
work, conditions, and pay, and, so far as special training
is necessary, arrangements will, if possible, be made for the
purpose.

Any woman who by working helps to release a man or to equip a
man for fighting does national war service. Every woman should
register who is able and willing to take employment.

The forms were sent out in large numbers through the women's societies
of the country, and it was stated on them that women were wanted
at once for farm-work, dairy work, brush-making, leather stitching,
clothing, machinery and machining for armaments.

By next day the registrations were 4,000, mostly middle-class women,
and in the first week 20,000 registered and an average of 5,000 a week
after, but the mass of women who registered waited with no real lead
or use of them for a long time. The Government seemed to suffer from
a delusion a great many people have, that if you have enough machinery
and masses of names something is being done, but you do not solve any