NO RESPONSE

Feilding Star, Volume 11, Issue 4181, 2 March 1934, Page 7

NO RESPONSE

DOMESTIC POSITIONS

CANNOT GET GIRLS (Per Press Association). Dundin, March 1 “There is no domestic unemployment among gills and women today. It is absolutely impossible to get girls for housework or cooking.” (Tikis was the firm declaration of the proprietress of a labour bureau in the course of an interview with a reporter. In her 20 years’ experience is a labour agent. she found today that it was more difficult to obtain gir] s for these situations than ever before. There was a huge demand on the part of employers, but it was quite impossible to induce girls to go to the country. Even town people found they could not secure maids. Hundreds of girls who could never he 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 the fact, that girls would not. work under a mistress They obviously preferred work fas housekeepers, or witli men. “I don’t want to lie hard* on unemployed girls,” continued tlie agent, “but I really do think those who can work should not be helped if they won’t work.”