SHORTAGE OF GIRL LABOR.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 6 April 1908, Page 7

SHORTAGE OF GIRL LABOR.

WELLINGTON, April 6. . The- experience of the manager of the Petone Woollen Mills bears out the statements sent from -various parts of the Dominion as to the shortage of girl laborjpHe states that there is a great deartftc'of girlß, and aB a consequence ten looms in his company's mill are standing idle. Nearly every department is,.in,fac:fc, in want of. girls and boys. In many cases the company is employing married women at 35s a week to fill the vacancies.