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(By Telegraph)" - ,(Special to tho "Evening Post") / DUNEDIN, This Day. "There is no domestic unemployment among girls and -women today; it is absolutely impossible to get girls for housework or cooking." This was the firm declaration of the proprietress of a labour bureau in tho course of an interview with a reporter. In her twenty years' experience as a labour agent she found today that it was more difficult .to obtain girls for these . situations than over before. There was a huge demand on the part of employers, but it was quite im-' possible to induce girls to go to the country. Even town people found they could not secure maids. Hundreds of girls who could 'never be -absorbed were learning typewriting, and nearly every girl of any intelligence on leaving school was sent to this sort of thing. The old type of domestic servant was dying out. Another peculiar feature of 'domestic work today was tho fact that giris would not work under a mistress. They obviously preferred work as housekeepers, or with men. "I don't want to be hard on unemployed girls," continued the agent, "but I really do think those who can work should not be helped if they -won't work."
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 51, 1 March 1934, Page 5
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208NO RESPONSE Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 51, 1 March 1934, Page 5
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