SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 765, 14 March 1910, Page 3

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Women's Employment Bureaux. .The Auckland Bureau report for last month states, that: application's had beep received from 251: omployers, and applications for >ork from. sli women.. Many extra girls .are engaged at this season' at Hotorua and other ■ tourist; resorts, , where they are' offered' better wages. Their fares are paid to the districts, and they make a, good deal by way of. tips. In, reference to, the women who apply for employment, there is always during the "course ■ of, the month a small percentage who are utterly incapable, and the, office cannot take the | responsibility'of sending them to work. At Ghristchurch, 90. people applied for employment, and 225 employers asked for workers. A ■ great many .inquiries have been received for machinists, coat and skirt hands, girls for laundries, and picklefactories; also for shirt Wages for domestics in town range from 15s. to.-iii; and girls,.for. the country cannot be induced to go under any circumstances. .Three-quarters of the applications, received for generals are not filled owing to the dearth of girls. ■ In Nelson "it is very difficult to get domestic workers.'at- , this time of year, when there is a great demand for raspberry and hop-pickers, and girls are glad of the change from. the ordinary domestic rbiituie. Fifty.: applications were, rereceived : for. workers,: and sixteen for wort '• .■:".. , „;.'■'■■.. ■'■■' : ;.',".-■; "•'•■ ". ' Dunedin had 144 applications from employers, and 62;fro>m people seeking work. Wellington reports that two Home vessels, the Enapehu- and - the, Tainni, had been ;met._ -0n1y..: five domestics from over-seas:were assisted during tho<month. The- applications received from - : this soirrcb , were very few.-'indeed.vln . one particular.case a new-arrival, possessing excellent ■ testimonials stated that she would' not' take any .position under £2 per week.' It is- very .unlikely that her expectations. will '■ be. realised. Many of the/applicants are' not .earnest-in their desire to'obtain'work, especially amongst the Igenerals; and others, owing, to various reasons; principally is to' character, could not possibly, bo.'recommended for situations. This in '• part expjains the discrepancy between the .number of applications from domestics and the .number- assisted. All' who: applied could'generally have been assisted but for the reasons stated. ; Mrs..-Izett returned to .iWaiigairai . on. Saturday.:,:...-. , '■:■•■■...■-'..''.,''.■.■■ '-. '.:■'.'■ ■ iIiES Whitaier retnrned to Wellingfin last. week, ■ after .a. visit to. Otafci, ■■ Levin, and Pprirua, in connection,with the work of the;. Girls'. Friendly .Society.,. , \. '.. The.Envi F..Evans, with Mrs. and Miss ■Evans, who have been visiting ..Welling-,, ton, to New.Plymouth to-day; . : Miss F. Chaytpr is the guest of Colonel and Mrs. Chuytor.-. :. • , . , . ,'

Ignorance of the. profound and credulous: sort is a.theme discoursed by Ifcfr. jr.-E., Chesterton,, who declares .it. was revealed on every.'side during the recent jerieral • election." 'He gives the' following illustration, in ' support:—The other ' day i lady, , hearing I: was' : a; liberal, ■ asked me if- I, really thought .would, he\ better for "the, Germans-to rule us. . Supposing this to. he. legitimate, .party.. ..satire,' I lriswered in similar . vein. I. said; that I, good many (Jerraans do rule us. already,, ind get. coronets, for doing it. The simple Fords- she said in reply' strinned me , like ilubs of stone. F found she thought ihat Mr.. Asquith did, literally: arid iperily, recommend th&t'.the Kai'ser should 5? made ;King : of England.''. She thought ;hat was. ; his public programme..' Her >nly\ doubt was ■ whether, this well-known Liberal ..scheme w x as, really quite:Twise,.,.■■ •"Well, good-by, dear!" jSCm&ii joy to his beloved-spouse.— ls l— must .go-, md, dictate those letters—26 : of them—so rou : mustn't expect mo.'home very early."right,", was' the' response..--;-'"But I. rish you wouldn't work so hard.". Half, in hour later llr.Truebpy-.entered his iliib and sat down, with three others,, at i. card "Just a moment, you felowe, before the. first-hand .'is dealt. I've l jot. to keep my word'with my wifo. One >f you just take down what I dictatffA b c .d'o'f g h i j kl-'m nopqretuv w i.y z.' There! , Those letters are off my. iiind!"-V-■'.'■.'.'•.■■'.v'-.,- "t'. ■ ■"■' ;; ' ■■'■