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Wanganui Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14017, 25 June 1913, Page 2

Many heads of households are being relieved of domestic worries through the agency of the Victorian Immigration Department, Since the beginning of the year over 300 young women have been imported from Great Britain as domestic servants, but the problem, as far as this form of employment is concerned, is as yet unsolved (writes the Melbourne Age). The applications for woman helps received by the Department outnumber the arrivals nearly 100 per cent., and daily the authorities receive large numbers of letters from householders appealing' fertile services of prospective arrivals. Some of those letters are amusing, others almost pathetic. In a few cases the domestic disabilities of despairing mistresses are pleaded, and the authorities arje asked to set the household in order by supplying the necessary assistance from among the young women coming out under the patronage of the Department. The young women who arrived .last week by the Militiades were paraded in squads. There was little bargaining as to salary, for the majority of those in quest of helps came prepared to offer comparatively high wages. There wore some w)io attended the offices willing to bid over the heads of the "selected” mistresses, but their chances of success were doomed, as steps had been taken by the officers to prevent this form of bargaining as far as possible. The whole of the 95 girls were disposed of in a few hours, and escorted to their new homes. *