“MAKES MY BLOOD BOIL.”

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 9 April 1927, Page 9

“MAKES MY BLOOD BOIL.”

British Women as Migrants. HUMILIATING SLUR ALLEGED. By Cable —Press Association —Copyright. ' Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received April 8, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, April 7. “It is a humiliating slur to suggest that British women are only useful in the Dominions as domestics,” said Miss Wileman, founder of the Empire League for Overseas Settlement, addressing the Soroptiniists’ Club. Miss Wileman complained that they were only invited to migrate as domestics, for which the women of the British professional classes were wholly unfitted, and it was detrimental ’ to British prestige. Domestic work overseas was three times ns heavy as in England. “It makes my blood boil,” added Miss Wileman, “to see American women flaunting luxurious wealth and sneering at the gently bred middleclass British women, over the Border in Canada, as domestic drudges.”

"GUARANTEE OF GOOD FAITH.” ATTEMPTS TO VICTIMISE MIGRANTS. By Cable —Press Association —Copyright. Sydney “Sun" Service. (Received April 8, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, April 7. Advertisements appeared in the provincial papers promising situations in New Zealand, at salaries ranging from £24 to £SO per month, and requesting applicants to forward £2 as a guarantee of good faith. The advertiser, who is a Londoner, disappeared following upon police inquiries. i• , - TRAINING OF MIGRANTS. EXPENSIVE SCHEME SUGGESTED By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received April 8, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, April 7. In the House of Commons, Sir L. Worthington Evans (Minister of War) stated that the sum required to carry out the works at Catterick migrants’ training camp was £1,438,000, which was 62 per cent, above the original estimate.