TWO HUNDRED GIRLS WANTED.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 644, 22 October 1909, Page 4

TWO HUNDRED GIRLS WANTED.

] ;4 ;jxoußNFp£';iwis Viijr; 'Auckland; ■:■ 3- ; ' our "Auckland ■correspondont, sends a ,vory. mournful.account,of tho domestic servant ques- . tion: in Auckland. :; ; '': ■■'•■'- ■-..-■','■ '"•'•■■ '..■■■:.-' '~ .' '."There".never was such.a scarcity of domestio isorvants - in-Auckland-in' toy. experience," says Aliss,Morrison, ■;who,, is in : chargo of. tho AVomiinV Unemployment Bureau ': in this city, 'MlM "■ Mortisoiivadda-that about.2oo-girls/could k> absbrbed'at.tho present tilno< : That, at'all-events,:-ia.■ tho approximate .'nuinbor. .of,■•'the' vacancios-whielieho knoW3tof, andtho supply borting" frfrwai'd ie vory-small indeed; Last niofith 88 applications woromado to the bureau for , .-.generals/ and only 12 could bo furnished, (iespitothe fact :that: the. wages offered .ranged ; fr6ni; I2s.- to.'ifil:ii v iveek/ uonerals ~aro' ■ tho • tearcestjof all'classes of, domestic helps: doubt- ,' 'lesa-.becaiisoithc; dut.ie3.>ttachiag td the nasi- t .tion .are, more-irlisonio and constant than thoso \. falling on -girls employed 'in : other capacities. ■ Jj'oi'- , really gtod.;coofcs there, is also, a -largo i'domand,^ttC(l:!tlid'Wagea-olfored go as- high a 9 ,'JG3. : 'i( ''w.ookr ,'i'l'ho silpply-qf- 'other classes of - domestic servants.', although inadequate, is moro I coiiiinohsurato 'Wltli. the > demand, : '->but :■.•.eomo \ really.attractivdrsitiiatioaearo'vacant.: ■■>. ■■/■. - : : Mies'.Morrison;; says, that thero', are:'■■.■many ■ .cftSeß<in'..;>vhich tho.'scarcity of ■' domestics .is :■■ placing, -real/. hnrAshji^fflß,.,householders wh'ere; »ii thore are invalids, .or. where tho' families are ■" laiijo, ■.'■■. The! only rensonf which- Mien. Morrison can advauco,.for the acuteness of. tho^position isithat'the; supply/of ,uirls is notiswelled .from othor states ..or • districts, and that tho local supply, : ."_'nlways_' limited, is. unusually.'; small; •, ■while.Vgirls,are>'not';moving;:from"situations ,' 'which'they;..'m ay'.. hap'pen' to : in. :' Tho num- ■ ber. of girls 'w^hb; conie.'f rom '■ Britain,. and .are .■: siiitablo for. d6mestlc service is negligible. For Instance,: the' Drayton ; Grange, which arrived, recently, brought only two girls, and they were, so .young that they 'will, have -to be taught. "Hhll," : Miss ■llorrison ■ snid, -"one ' could do mer'6';.with f .these'.'yoiJhgVfc'irls,'thanrwith' the class.ol , girl coming out:some timo'ago. They, had.- worked in cotton mills und factories for : years, and; expected: to; command gdod wages •as-domcstlcs, bltttthoyihad everything to learn, innd wt'ro- too. old to : .' •■-'.■'. ■■■ -.- ~ . '; One hopeful damsel of. 30, whom Miss Mor- - fispajromemberod, got a'situation as a plain ,cool!|-;but (lid not keep it long. ■-.■ She- came to , tho bureau to/complnin that the family which - she was with had porridge -~for breakfast, and nsed; 'and. spoon each, and tea for breakfast,-.niid-uitad-a ,, and spoon'-" besides; a .small plato and -i knife each, and ; .jvero BOncrally>BUlity : of .dirtying dishes ex..trayagantly.^'.Wlioul Jliss '.Morrison ronion- ? ?fS c H i 1" * a \ A :th ? l 'f'o: damsel had not jUHtilicd her undertaking that she was:a good P'f'h :.<"»*. she -replied, in a surprised tone Why,-'l;.can.brew tea." ,-:'■■ ■■!■-,-