WIDOWS AND DAUGHTERS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18267, 29 December 1924, Page 2

WIDOWS AND DAUGHTERS.

♦ ■ NEW IMMIGRATION SCHEME. Miss Nora Dickson, who left Sydcy several months ago to make arrangements for tho accommodation of Australian visitors to the Empire Exhibit tion, also spent some time in recruiting for domestics. She returned to Sydney lately with some of the girls she had secured in her charge. Most of them came from Lancashire and Yorkshire. The Jervis Bay brought 79 domestics, of whom 24 were for New South Wales. The girls' ages averaged 22 years. One of the most satisfactory methods of obtaining domestics—and this was discovered by Miss Dickson —was to interview widows witii grown-up daughters. She obtained a number of these, and the first of them—a widow with three daughters—arrived at Sydney her. Each family is promised employment as close together as possible. "The girls I brought with me are exceptionally good," said Miss Dickson in an interview, "and there are hundreds of girls such as we want all over England. What is needed is proper organisation. Wc could do with six women who know Australia well, and also know the English girl. Three of . these women should be travelling all the time. It is not the slightest good leaving the selection of girls to a man, as is being, done \at present. Canada is employing women, seven of them, with a fully qualified woman commissioner in charge."