IMMIGRANT MAIDS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 479, 12 April 1909, Page 3

IMMIGRANT MAIDS.

A PROTEST. Two or more correspondents, write:—Will you kindly grant us a small space in your columns to acquaint tho mistresses with our views as regards the free immigration of domestics? In tho first place, they say they do not wish to lower tho wages." This is incorrect, as they are already trying to do so. And tho "so-called ladies" of Wellington are not slow to tell us that they do not intend to consider their girls any ntore, as they will soon be able to get girls for half tho wages they are paying now. Other mistresses, again, have caught .the retrenchment craze, and intend doing with one girl whero they kept two before. As for saying "the problem especially affects those who aro neither wealthy nor well-to-do," this means that we aro to do heavy work at ss. a week because they cannot afford to givo us more. When this stato of things comeS to pass, it will be time to send a petition Homo requesting tho "ladies" of England to a-ssist us over to the Old Country, whero our work will ho appreciated. This will also givo those immigrants (who find tho New Zealand mistresses not quito "what they aro cracked up to ho") a chance to. get back Home again. If a mistress cannot get a girl to suit out of tho number there aro already hero, then there must be something wrong with her disposition. And as a euro wo would suggest a trip to Germany, and a lengthy stay there, where she will got all tho foreign aid she requires with- • out further degrading tho Dominion with I any mote undesirables.—Wo are, etc., their obedient servants (for the present), DOMINION DOMESTICS.