RAISE THEIR SOCIAL STATUS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 3889, 2 December 1919, Page 2

RAISE THEIR SOCIAL STATUS.

Miss Melville, an Auckland political candidate, had an original no.ution for the domestic help problem. -Jhe said it was to give girls who helped in other peoples' homes a proper! \ recognised social status, the same ah nurses, for instance. She suggested training of girls for domestic work 111 an«tels, where they could gain State certificate? for various graden. They could then go out to work for a certain number of hours a week. She fell uire that if such girls had a recognised standing and their certificates •ould command good pay for them, ;>i emy would go m for domestic service. That would be at the same time <■ boon tor the women who could not now obtain help, and were in conse(iience, wearing themselves out. (Applause j