CANNOT BE MET.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 210, 6 September 1938, Page 13

CANNOT BE MET.

DEMAND FOR DOMESTICS. A material improvement in the placement of unemployed women is noted in the annual report of tlie Ohristchurch women's employment committee, and it is stated that there is a demand for competent domestics which cannot be met. The most serious difficulty experienced in the committee's work is the placing of those unemployed who have spent several years in factory or shop and cannot adapt themselves to domestic employment. As a result of a falling-off in registrations, it was deemed advisable to reduce the office staff. Two of the elder women have been engaged in making and mending clothes for those in necessitous circumstances. The statistics for *the period under review nre as follows:—There were 163 fresh registrations; 103 re-registered; 253 were placed in positions; 42 have been piven employment in the centre; 27 have been placed in subsidised positions; 12 were assisted with room rent; SO were assisted with clothing and footwear; while 124 homes have been visited in order to Ascertain particulars as to the environment of those on the regis-; ter, and 15,090 meals were supplied to those on the register. I