“ People would scarcely credit tlie meanness of some employers,” writes a correspondent to the Lyttelton Times, on the servant irirl question. “1 know of (rases wlmro the dependants arc fed on stale bread and rancid butter. Good butter is used for the employers and families, and pastry butter only allowed for the servants.” Yet some people are indignant that girls do not take kindly to domestic service.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1260, 23 April 1896, Page 29
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67Page 29 Advertisements Column 2 New Zealand Mail, Issue 1260, 23 April 1896, Page 29
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