IMPORTING DOMESTICS.
The Prime Minister (Hon. T. Mackenzie) announced recently that the Government proposed to arrange for the immigration of a number of carefully selected girls from high-class English orphanages, the idea being to relieve the domestic help trouble m New Zealand. Reterring to the scheme, the Hon. G. W. Russell (Minister tor Internal Affairs) informed a reporter that a cable had been sent to the High Commissioner’s office within the last day or two asking the officer in charge to secure fifty girls from the clergy and Masonic orphanages.
"Numerous applications have alreauy been received for the girls, settleis Irom various parts of the Dominion having written to the department,” said the Minister. "1 had a letter to-day from a farmer who says he is prepared to pay 17s 6d a week fora maid, but he is unable to obtain any assistance, although his family is small and the work easy. I have had to inform him and all other writers that the Government cannot consider applications at the present time, as 11 will be fully six months before the girls arrive.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1058, 18 June 1912, Page 3
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183IMPORTING DOMESTICS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1058, 18 June 1912, Page 3
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