SCARCITY OF GIRL LABOUR.
(EY TELEGRAPH.—SPECIAL COBBESPONDENT.) > : ' Christchurch, April 4. ■ Mr. P. Hercus, manager of the Kaiapoi Woollen-Company, complains of the great scarcity of girl .labour. We are badly in want of skilled coat and vest, costume, skirt, hat, and cajie and hosiery hands," lie said, " and there is also a tremendous shortage of boysi There does hot appear to be enough girls'-to go round, .which is due, I supposo, to the many fresh avenues, of employment open to them, such as typewriting and clerk'ing. Another factor is-that people aro getting moro comfortably situated, and aro not sending their girls out to such an cxtont as previously to earn their livelihood. Several years ago wo had no difficulty at all in getting labour, but it is vastly different now. ,'We are' shortly, opening a largo new factory; 'in which we could offer work for. 100. more skilled hands than we already have. Every year the supply is getting gradually shorter."
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 165, 6 April 1908, Page 8
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