DOMESTIC WORK

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 230, 28 September 1943, Page 5

DOMESTIC WORK

SUGGESTED HOURLY BASIS

In an address to members of the English-speaking Union in Wellington, Mrs. Marshall Macddhald, of the Rehabilitation Council, said she had discussed the domestic help question with Government officials and the Rehabilitation Board and had asked that hostels be provided for domestic workers and that work should be provided on an hourly basis. Domestic workers should be able to live on the same basis as dental nurses or training college students boarding in hostels, and they should have the same privileges for cultural training as girls in other walks of life. Under these conditions, Mrs. Macdonald thought, there would be no difficulty in securing domestic help. Girls of a . superior type had been found in service in hotels and large boarding, houses because there they were sure of regular hours and the wages were right.

Mrs. Macdonald said she hoped that after the industrial nurses and welfare officers would be found in all factories and large business houses and that compulsory legislation would make this a necessity.