THE HOPELESS HOME

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 503, 10 May 1909, Page 3

THE HOPELESS HOME

V; ; ; ;V:AND THOSE MISSING;MAIDS. /'; .:■'■ ;-_When : .tho Eev. W. "■•' informed a' : , .Dominion-represontativeHhat;most; bf> the \■^EpU';re^yca^ini» l \tho'■iß'a^lß^•do•.'Hdmcls'. : ■in ■vEnglandwefe"trained for domestic . it : ; was; suggested that New' Zealand. might 1 do" ...'.some business with.that.deserving institution. ..■.The. thought of; "domestic supply" from tho, ..'v.Barnaido,Homes waa.at bnco discouraged by .'■• ..'tho.:. visiting omissary, 1 ■••who 'stated that the .. ,'i: demand for servants in England was so heavy that ho feared that they could not.begin to ;■:/;. supply., tho- Dominion: vot. ; Mr. Mayers said ■ ■■'■.'■, that ..the,'servant :'prob!om..' seonied to' bo 'a ' grayoone everywhere.:. Cases had come under ;: :nis notice in -different parts of England whore' /'families .had : had to.moyd into hotels'or. flats. >.'on account .of not being ablo to got domestics. :;, Therewas aninsatiable;demand from Canada, ■■-.■; '■and over .200 boys and-girlß. are sent thero ,:-' : every year;..! In this.connection, thoCanaclian^ • v agent.had travelled across'tho Atlantic over ••.:a hundred, times' in charge.-of such parties, • >nd each ,tim'o:ho'has disappointed from ISO : .to 7 200 people ' in :'search : 'of'.servants.' : Ho ~'attributed the dearth'of ■domestic workers to '.vtho : factories, tea-rooms, 'and; other avenues of '•-'' employmnnt,.tiiat:ihad■boon,oponcd up■ for ■'v ; ,girls.during recent, years, that were not re-. ~:.;cognised,as such a decade ago.;