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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 116, 2 February 1918, Page 14

Recently the North Canterbury Farmers' Union communicated with the Women's National Reserve concerning the procuring of douestic workers, states the "Lvttelton Times." The following reply has been received from the secretary of the reserve:—"l nrn in receipt of your letter regarding doniestio labour, and beg to inform you that none of our members have registered as willing to undertake that branch of work./ The dearth, of domestie help is not a Vendition brought about bv the war, therefore it is impossible for us to deal with it; and the want of domestics is felt as much in tlio towns as in the. country. Bven if wo v.cre able (we. are quite willing) to help vou with domestics. I doubt if the registered labour bureaux would allow it. We have the names of. between five and six hundred soldiers' wives on our list, some without children, some with. If it were possible to ask these women to go out in the country and assist during harvest as a natriotir duty, and the people to whose homes tlicy did go to receive them as patriotic workers,' then perhaps we tsould help you, but to supply you smiplv with domestic servants is an impossibility. I am putting an advertisement into the papers asking these women to como forward and assist ,as patriots, but ] do not expect a very satisfactory response." •