LURE OF FACTORIES
HOMES NEEDING DOMESTICS VIEWS OF FARMERS* WIVES [BT TELEGRAPH —PKESS ASSOCIATION] ASHBURTO.N, Tuesday The need for domestics and the lure of factory work for girls formed tho subject of a brief discussion at the conference of tho Women's Division of the Farmers' Union. One delegate said women in tho home were worked to death because they could not receive domestic help, and their children could not but be neglected to some extent. At the same time there were in factories hundreds of girls who should bo giving service in the homes. There had been a lot of talk of the need for immigation, she added, but if girls engaged in factories were taken out men would be able to get work and bo placed in a position to marry and establish homes. There would then be less need for the cry for immigration.
Another delegate said the woollen mills were one of tbe biggest buyers of New Zealand's finer types of wool, and if men, with their higher wages, replaced the girls, the mills would not be able to compete with outside manufacturers and the effect would be felt all over the country.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23000, 30 March 1938, Page 15
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196LURE OF FACTORIES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23000, 30 March 1938, Page 15
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