DOMESTIC SERVANT PROBLEM.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10776, 26 May 1911, Page 4

DOMESTIC SERVANT PROBLEM.

MR SEDGWICK'S SOLUTION. (Per Tress Association.) Auckland, May 25. rMr'T. .Sedgwick, who Jias played a prominent. part in the question of importing English boy labor, suggested at a conference of the A. and P. Association. this afternoon, that an easy solu-' tion.: of the domestic servant problem wpuld be to import large parties of girls from home ana apjirentice them to NewZealand mistresses." Hundreds of "good girls would be willing to come under conditions. In the. Orphans, and Poor -Law-; Schools-there were 40,000 girls well'trainjed and well behaved, who would be-glad;to accept apprenticeship •if brought out to this country.* .This could .be done through , the New. Zealand Labor Department and- the High Commissioner's . office, and a shipment brought .out, preferably on a cargo boat fitted with dormitories, where the girls would be under supervision and compelled to attend largely to their own .requirements.