DOMESTIC SERVICE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 124, 11 June 1937, Page 5

DOMESTIC SERVICE

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Educating Employees in Right Direction CHRISTCHURCH MOVE

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christchurch, Last Night. So acute has the shortage of domestic workerB become that women 's organisations in Christchurch have organised a special committee to tackle the problem. This committee, knowa as the Household Service Campaign Committee, has proposed the traifiing of a I national corps of domestic workers to be paid and hired out by the Government. It plans also a campaign among employers to change the attitude towards domestic workers. Public meetings will be called, and the soheme will be laid before the Government. The opinian is widely held among women 's orgamsations that • the status of the domestic workers must j be raised considerably if a good supply ; of efficient workers is to be maintained. They blame many employers ' for adopting the wrong attitude towards girls and women working in the home, and an important paft of the campaign will be the educating of ' employers and intending employers in the art of employment. An attempt will be made to alter the public attitude towards domestic workers. The Household Service Campaign Committee is representative of leading women 's organisations. Its chairman is Mrs Ross MacDonald, president of the Christchurch Home Service Association, which has, for the last eight years, been closely associated with the problem of employment for women. The secretary of the committee and organiser of the compaign is Miss C. E. Robinson, vocational guidance offieer. Members of the publicity campaign committee are Miss M. G. Havelaar, Mrs L. C. L. Averill, Mrs Leicester Webb and Dr. A. B. O'Brien. It was Dr. O'Brien 's address to the annual meeting of the home service which set the campaign under way.