THE ARAWA ARRIVALS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 842, 14 June 1910, Page 3

THE ARAWA ARRIVALS.

New Zealand is not in the 'desperate state that made the oldest " American colouies. hold public services of thanksgiving when a ship from the Homeland brought a contingent of young women to their shores, but feelings of envy or pleasure are present in many a feminine heart when news comes of tlie arrival of twenty-two qualified domestic workers. That was the numbeivof imaidens- who arrived yestordiiy by tho Arawa, under tho care of Mrs. Hume Lindsay, all of them ready far ser.vico in.the Dominion, and most of them already provided with situations. Mrs.. Lindsay is one of "the matrons of the British , Women's Emigration Association; a society under : the patronage of Queen ' Alexandra, and she is also emigration agent for women on behalf of .tho New Zealand. Government. ■■•. , The girls she has brought out are. fine specimens of' British womenhood, and they won the ■ respect of all their fellowpassengers on the AraWK As a matter of fact, the British Women's Emigration- Society is careful to €iicourag« only tho best types of women to emigrate, realising that ' what , the newer countries want is efficient workers. A young woman applying to the association must, pass a medical examination by a doctor in London, and must have threo cerlificates, * one from the doctor, one from a clergyman,' and another from fier employer. The passage money to New Zealand is only .£lO, but suitable applicants will have the money advanced to them. ' • ■

There does not seem to have been any difficulty in persuading these • girls to coniu onl, In fael they have enjoyed the venture. .Mrs. Lindsay is • interested to know what demand there is in New Zealand for girls of another class, typists and others, for no doubt if there were any inducement English girls would be found anxious to go into offices here. It is not likely that what Sirs. Lindsay hears in New Zealand of tho way'-our own girls crowd into these employments will induce her to encourage any English girls to compete with them. Many of the girls whom Mrs. Lindsay brought out are members ol the Girls' Friendly Society, which does a great deal of work in association with tho Emigration Society, and it is at the G.F.S. Hostel : that Mrs. Lindsay will slay when she returns on Friday from Napier, where she yesterday accompanied the girls who have come out under engagement to tho-syndicate of Napier ladies.