DOMESTIC SERVANT PROBLEM.
MR SEDGWICK'S SOLUTION
AUCKLAND, May 25. Mr T. Sedgwick, who has played a prominent part in the question of import- - ing English boy labour, suggested at a conference of the A. and P. Association this afternoon, that an easy solution of the domestic servant problem would be to import large parties of girls from Home, and apprentice them to New Zealand mistresses. Hundreds of good girls would be willing to come under such conditions. In the Orphans and Poor Law Schools there were 40,000 girls well trained and well behaved, who would be glad to accept apprenticeship if brought out to this country. This could be done through the I New Zealand Labour Department and the I 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 re- I quirements. J
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Otago Witness, Issue 2985, 31 May 1911, Page 53
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