COOK STEALING

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2136, 30 April 1914, Page 11

COOK STEALING

Tho London ."Evening News" of March It) announces that tho New South Wales and Victorian Governments have incurred tho grave displeasure of the suburbs of Streotham and Tooting, Ou that, date large ptivelopes, bearing tho imprint "On His Majesty's Service," arrived at many houses in those centres. They were addressed to "Tho Cook." Upon examination thev were found to foe invitations from the. Governments of the above-mentioned States to immigrate, and added that tho coolc would "find, her work made easy by labour-saving devices . . . and good girls gat opportunities of attractive marriages." Many breakfasts were delayed while tiro cook perused these proposals. Sho was told that every girl who sailed under the 'auspices of tho source-from which the letter eamo would carry a definite giiar■anteo of employment- immediately upow landing at from 12s. Cd. to 255, a weofc, while iirst-elass cooks received subsUmssily more. One lady eonrpkined bitierl'y to the "Evening News." "It's hard oiionßn to get -servants at all, without these™ Governments 'touting' for tics at private houses," Mr. K. Ray- ' ment, the. Assistant SupivrintMidont of Iheluumer.'vtum Department of the Governments ooneonredj is reported to have said in explanation that thoy wows net instituting a vrliolosjile. !Va.mptvi.g.n to induce domestic servants to leave their present situations. "The circular," ho said, "vs only being sos-st out to those districts from which wo have received . inquiries from servants as to the. pro's'pccls of employment, in Australia."