To indicate the nature of the train ing and the discipline required, Mrs, Tompsitt quoted" the case of piece, who ga medic course to join. "she sent to a training the coastal towns," she said, "where the girls were billeted in three fine hostels. Before being allocated to any special duties the girls are put rough a three weeks' course, during which they must do anything required of them. Ais niece's first job was to pluck eight or nine turkeys. In one day she washed 800 dishes, at} another time peeled what she described as "umpteen' sacks of potatoes, and hind to wait at table, After three weeks she was made chief recruit and had to, see that the other Feeruits conformed to all the regulations. Now she has been drafted Into the Secret Service division.
"This. preliminary course enables the officers to judge a girl's capabiliies, her personality and" temperament, 30 that they are able to place her where she will be most useful, "The camp where 1 was stationed was situated la a huge park which had been our in half and where about 30 or 40 army huts had been erected. The camp included 300 men ahd officers and about 200. women and their emeers. At first there Was no accommodation for the-A.T'S. fand the girls were billeted in. th istrict. Now, however, they have of one kine or another," says Mrs he "Sydney Morning Herald." She to Australia after 15 months absence, and since the out-the Auzitiary Territorial Services three fine hostels. Girls whose homes are nearby are allowed to live home. T lived with my people, jand used to bicycle to the camp every day.
'There were all types of the camp. -some who had been out! of work for months, others who had given up good Jobs to join the ATS, and others who had never lifted a finger to do anything for themselves in their lives. But' from the commandant down to the orderlies they fall gave of their' very' utmost, "OF course, it was not all work Jand no play." To keep us of we hed ames, golf. badminton, tennis, and physical drill, in addition to the
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