HELP FOR RURAL WIVES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19034, 11 June 1924, Page 8

HELP FOR RURAL WIVES.

WORKERS FROM ENGLAND SYDNEY, May 29. The Domestic Immigration Socitey of New South Wales has before it a practical scheme for giving an impetus to migration, and for making easier the life of the women out back. It proposes to bring out to Australia from the rural districts of England, domestic workers ranging from 16 to 20 years of age. They will be brought out under speciallyselected matrons, and placed in a training hostel, which will be a centre also for comradeship and social life. In each country town there will be a small committee to safeguard the welfare of the girls. eioYC Ith et nlnnnu unpu punpun The State Government has set its imprimatur upon the scheme by giving £5OO to the society, and by promising more if the scheme proves satisfactory. The society has been further encouraged by the promise of the Federal that as soon as a certain number of domestics are sent out, and there is an assurance of more to follow, it will pay 50 per cent, toward the establishment and maintenance of the hostel. It will also grant free fares to the girls from England to Australia. the money to be paid back in easy stages, in some cases ranging from 10 to 15 years, when they are in a position to save. The society has backing of the president of the Graziers’ Association. Dr. Norman Kater, and other representative citizens. Little has been heard of this society; but it appears to be approaching in a very sane way the problem of migration