IMMIGRATION OF DOMESTICS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 48, 20 November 1907, Page 4

IMMIGRATION OF DOMESTICS.

FIFTY A FORTNIGHT FOR SYDNEY. Advices from the Agent-Genera! for New South Wales state that the recent determination of the State Government to reducethe price of assisted passages in the case of femalo domestic servants from the United Kingdom to £3 has produced a large number of applications from all parts of the British Isles, and there is now every probability thata steady streani of this most desirable class will soon begin to flow into New South Wales.-. ■ : . • I

Special care is- being taken by the immigiation officers in London to secure only such girls as will bo likely -to ineot requirements in this State. With this object, the local agents arc being urged to make special efforts to secure domestics, so far as may bo possible, from the nirbl districts of Yorkshore, Scotland, and Ireland, it being recognised that city-bred girls from largo hotels and boarding-houses, as well as the specialist class of girls ivom the larger households, would bo less s.blo to udajpt themselves con.tentcdly to New South Wales conditions. The first contingent of 61 domestics sailed 0:1 October 30 by the Miltiades, and parties of 50 will follow every fortnight. There aro at the present time, roughly speaking (says the "Sydney Morning Herald"), 110,000 more men than women in this State, and there arc literally thousands of mistresses anxiously desirous of getting domestic help.