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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13452, 31 May 1907, Page 3

A master retailer, giving evidence in the Arbitration Court,, in. Sydney, recently, said that t/ie supply of girls looking for engagements as shop assistants exceeded the demand.. The bulk of them came from the middle classes.' Parents in comfortable circumstances sent- some of their girls to work. They did not wish to. send .them to domestic service, and they liked to have them home in the evenings, so they sent them to the shops. ~ Girls, too, liked to relieve their parents of the burden of keeping them, and so went to the shops for employment. ; He did not know of any business where the pay.was.so good, and where the opportunities ior. advancement were better. -In certain departments'the girls were able 1 to make more wages than the men. In the millinery, mantles, ,and costumes. and underclothing, departments, lie paid the girls up to £20 per month. That was not an excessive figure. He had to | pay it to get the women lie wanted. And then, again, he repeatedly lost his girls because of marriage. - No matter from what form of rheumatism you suffeichronic, muscular, inflammatory or gout, sciatica; lumbago,' RHEUMO will surely euro you. All stores at 2s 6d and I 4-3 <xl.