DOMESTIC SERVANT PROBLEM.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 47, 25 February 1908, Page 2

DOMESTIC SERVANT PROBLEM.

£BT TELEOHAPH.— PHESS ASSOCIATION.] • AUCKLAND, 24th February. A letter hut been addicted to the Hon J. A. Millar (Minister for Labour) by tho organising ?ecrot?ry of the Now Zealand Women's Guild Olr«. R. Gcdcies Crawford), who tay& . - "I desire, on behalf of the council of the übo\o guild, to state that, being fo much interested in the immigration of domestic Fei\auls, we havo gathered some interesting facts, and arc firmly convinced that there is a crying need for a suitable class of young women who will make, not only good workers, but particularly Rood coloniFt-s We consider there is, thcrefoic, much need of a largo amount of discretion and judgment nceobMivy in the selection of the Fame. We would suggest, : — "(1) That if Hie Goi eminent will pay £12, in place of £9, as already paid, and tiso their influ»iH>o wi(ii us iv inducing a fir=t-cliii"; tliippirg comnany to reduce the fare- from £19 to £15 for domestic Ken ante, provided that en an :iveinge 50 ho pent out in each ■■teamer monthly for ono yonv, mutable youiifr women in the British Iblcs would willingly pay £3 toward their own fare. "(2) That the 1 al-our Donavlmenl invite all employer"- of {'.om^s-tlc ren ant?, who are in need of the mine, to v.iite distinctly slating their requirements. "Roalisiiiß: as we do tlie urgency of immediate action on behalf of tho women of Now Zealand, I again ask that your earliest attention he givon to this important subject. Servants aro >o urgently needed (hat the coiiTejueucj of delay will be the death of many mcie women through overwoils, and a'-o ni.uiy unborn diilc'icn"