DOMESTIC SERVANT PROBLEM
PUESS ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND. May 25. Mr T. Sedgwick, who has played a prominent part in the. question of importing English boy labour, suggested at the conference of A. and P. Associations this afternoon that an easy solution of the domestic servant problem would bo to import large parties of girls from Homo and apprentice them to New Zealand mistresses. Hundreds of good girls would bo willing to come under such conditions. In the orphans’ and poor law schools there were forty thousand girls, well trained and well behaved, who would be .glad to accept apprenticeship if brought out to this countrv. This could be don© through tho New Zealand Labour Department and the High Commissioner’s office. A shipment could bo brought' out, preferably on a cargo boat fitted with dormitories, where the girls would bo under supervision and compelled to attend largely to their .‘own requirements. ■'
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7450, 26 May 1911, Page 5
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149DOMESTIC SERVANT PROBLEM New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7450, 26 May 1911, Page 5
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