IMMIGRATION OF DOMESTICS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12963, 16 November 1907, Page 9

IMMIGRATION OF DOMESTICS.

Advices to hand from tho AgentGeneral for New South Wales state that tho recent determination of the Government to reduce tho price of assisted passages in tho case of female domestic servants from the United Kingdom to £3, has produced a large number of applications from all parts of the British Isles, and there is now ©very probability that a steady stream of this most desirable class of settler will soon begin to flow into JCew South Wales. Special car© ie being taken by tho immigration officers in London to secure only such girls as will bo likely to meet requirements in that State. With this object, the local agents are being urged (says the "Daily Telegraph") to make special efforts to soouro domestics, so far as may be possible, from the rural districts of Yorkshire, Scotland, and Ireland, it being recognised that city-bred girls from the largo hot-els and boarding-houses, ac well as the specialist class of girls from tho larger households, would bo less able to adapt themselves contentedly to New South Wales conditions. The first contingent of 61 domestics sailed on October 30th by the Aberdeen liner Miltiades, and parties of 50 will follow every fortnight. Aβ there are at,the present time, roughly speaking, 110,000 more men than women in this State, and there are literally thousands ot mistresses anxiously desirous of getting domestic help, this new development of tho immigration scheme should provo peculiarly useful in remedying these two serious economic evils.