DOMESTIC SERVANTS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 498, 4 May 1909, Page 3

DOMESTIC SERVANTS.

'■•;';■•■ DEMAND. '\ "Tho demand; for domestic assistants is greater thai'ever," said Miss Morrison (officer in charge ■of tho Government Employment Bureau for Women), in' answer to an inquiry - made' yesterday (says a Press : Association message).. "The' domestic servant problem is'as ever, and at no.time: does tlie.supply come .'within.- roach of. tho demand.' . From all parts of the province communications como. in, intimating :,' that domestics aro wanted, but we find it quite impossible:to cope with tho demand.!'.;; ■ When asked' whether tho.supply;of domes-; ties' arriving, as immigrants tended to ease the '■ situation,. Miss Morrison. replied that very few domestics were arriving in land from! tho Old Country, and the : majority of those, who wore coming were engaged before their; arrival, ; Miss Morrison added that there was an .almost, unlimited demand, • and if. the. immigration officers , at,. Home would encourage the migration of competent' domestics,'it 'would do much. to. relieve the. position.''',,' '... ■.''.. Quite 2000 applications per year reach the Auckland, Government Employment Bureau for Women, and Miss Morrison says that for 'some time"Dast she could have placed at least 200 domestic.assistants per.month had they been available. Less than half .this number ;woro' forthcoming, however, despite the fact that'excellent inducements from a romuueratiyo point of viow were offered.