DOMESTIC SERVANTS

Evening Star, Issue 23100, 28 October 1938, Page 9

DOMESTIC SERVANTS

200 FROM BRITAIN FOR SYDNEY PLACES FOR MANY MORE SYDNEY. October 10. Eleven girls from England, Ireland, and Wales arrived in Sydney yesterday by the Oronsay, under the Church of England Migration Council’s scheme, and they will enter domestic service immediately in New South Wales. Major C. W. H. Coulter, organising director of the council, who met the girls, said that if 500 domestic servants had arrived by the Oronsay, he would have had no difficulty in placing them in work. “ There is a great shortage of domestic servants in New South Wales,” he said. “ Under the present scheme, 200 girls will arrive in Sydney in small batches in the next few months. Every girl who leaves England has work to go to. Tl|e number under the scheme may be increased to 500.” Mfs Neville Woodstock, an English woman who married an Australian in London, was in charge of the girls during ,the voyage. “ They are splendid girls,” she said. “ Australia should know that she is getting the very best type; so much" so, that I would not be surprised if there were a fuss in England when it becomes known that many of the best girls will make their homes in this country.” When the Oronsay left_ England, there were 17 young domestic servants aboard. Six left the ship at Adelaide and Melbourne. Positions had been found for them in South Australia and in Victoria.