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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1831, 10 April 1907, Page 43

The question of Maori girls taking, up domestic service was discussed at the To Aute Association’s Conference at Gisborne. A letter from Rev. Dittos (Auckland) was read, stating that in Auckland Maori girls had been in service for a long time with success. Most of them belonged to the rangalira families, and so. good had been Tlie conduct of the girls that if there were twice as mtny looking for positions they could all be accommodated They worked under a rough code of rules, and were under tlie personal supervision of a lady cliurch worker. It was resolved- —“That this confeicmee, believing that the future welfare. :•? Hie Maori race is largely dependent ox Li;e work of women in the management cf the home and training of their "children, would strongly advocate’ Maori girls seeking employment in good iiakeha homes as domestic servants, hero thov may mo-t effect ive'y Le fitted to benefit both, themselves and their race.”