"SENSE OF HUMOUR."

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 203, 28 July 1937, Page 13

"SENSE OF HUMOUR."

LONDON’S WOAIEN POLICE. Scotland Yard is once more advertising for Aletropolitan women police, wrote a London correspondent recently. This is not because marriage depletes their ranks. Only one policewoman has left the force to bo married during the past two years, and only three 6ince the service was instituted. So fascinating do policewomen find their work, it appears, that when it. comes to the point they are unable to give it up. Twenty-six women have been added to the ranks since September, when it was decided to increase their number. This brings the present total to 80 and 50 more are needed. Applications have already been received, in reply to a recent advertisement, from many types of women, including one holding a university degree. Most of these will be discouraged by the stiff requirements. ’ A candidate must have sound heart and lungs, good sight, hearing and speech, fine teeth, clear complexion and be free from every defect. But this is not all—she must have an alert mind and graces of character and disposition. with emphasis on kindliness, tolerance and sense of humour. Finally, she must know how to wear any type of clothes, from rough country tweeds to the most elegant of full evening outfits. She may have to travel to the shims of Glasgow to fetch a woman suspect to London, or she may be sent to dine and dance at a smart Alavfair night club. “The standard is very high,” I was told, “and we are strictly maintaining it.”