ENGUSFT WOMRN FOR NEW ZEALAND

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 88, 8 January 1919, Page 2

ENGUSFT WOMRN FOR NEW ZEALAND

EFFICIENT DOMESTIC AYOKKERS . : REEDED; . -■•;-.■' . ' : (By "'Vox.' , ) ' . '.. ■- It is not at all unlikely that tho present year may, show -that-r a- great many women from England will desire to come to' New Zealand. , .' A manufacturer in one of tho Midland counties thinks it-very, likely... His opinion is that very often only ft. lack of money proven ted emigration. If this .is' so, ths opportunity to. eayp.i money offered by the. high wngps ruliiie in war time may cause, an exbdiis, The difliculty then confronting tlio New Zealand Emigration Agency in London ■ will be a great one. .Not.all the-working women , cmploved in war work at . Home- would be able to find .congenial employment here! . There.'are not many, factories to take'them, and the Government offices, hurl indeed .Tjiisiriess'"offices gpiiorally can; be kept well supplied from the boys and girls passing tho Civil SM'vice examinations every year. The kind'of women, very largely'needed here is the efficient domestic -worker. ' But then she is equ.illv badly needed in , every country under the.siin!. How Ipng'isit goiiif'to take tlie v womeni of an-'-intellieent community to realise that to be an efficient domestic worker is a good-deal"bfaiiiier than to' be merely a mechanical clprk? And yet girls will nitlier earn 30s. a week "clerking" than 20s. or 255. 'a week and board and lodging as domestic workers! The invariable answer is "It is all a question of. status and liberty." As for status, that is a 'con'ditibn 1 of mind. If any person rpirard liprself and her work as being dignified and worthy of respect will not others have the.pamp regard? Aβ for liberty, in what does it consist? If the word is'used in the senseof doing , sis one likes, then it is a-dead letter, for' no one living may do so; The whole fabric of society.'-'including all .grades, is built iin of laws and rules, -written andunwritten, which constitute the daily life of a community.-Each -iiew "liberty" fitnigfleil.for aiul altaiiied adds another law to be obsorved,'- aiul.tli" .lpa«t ofth.esp are the laws for the ■ breach, of.' which human punishment , pvertnlcps us. Thn day of the poor -little ..Marchioness and her kind is as dead as Quilp -himself. . ■ ■' •■:'>,;■- ' ■■ : :.. . "I

The sensible.housewife' (and- slip is \n h large -majority); treats her. "heln" with .the prime- consideration and loraltv, that p'lfi fi-oafs her .frieiu's. .as indeed sho should; for -a-'eobo , .domestic ] worker is like! the virtiipns woman, "lipr .price is above"' ~. '- ■ Oonsidpraflon ■*. and loynltv cniint for' a trpnipiidnns lot in all households,'.and wise families are as lnval to their."help", os-to wk other. They woufd no morn' dream .of .making her shortcomings'.(real , or .imaginary) a topic of convprsation-wiHi their ncanaint-antes-.thon they .would 0f.,-.proclaiming/ family failings.from..'the housetops... . •