Domestic Servant Problem.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 22, 31 May 1911, Page 5

Domestic Servant Problem.

Mr. T. Sedgwick, who has played a prominent part in the question of importing English boy labour, suggested to a “Star” representative that an easy solution of the problem would lie 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 orphanages and poor law schools there are forty {thousand grils. well-trained. and well-behaved, who would be glad to accept apprenticeship if brought out to this country. This could be done through the New Zealand Labour Department and 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.