THE SERVANT QUESTION.
A daughter of Canon Douglas, of Worcester, has (writes the London correspondent of the Melbourne Age) planned the most ambitious of the several schemes which
population. Registry offices of the old type, many of which are badly managed, will be abolished. They have been receiving between them about £1,000,000 a year in fees from employees and servants. If the new society should secure half that total it will pßy well on business lines, and it will
improvement in her type, and a general insistence upon good credentials among; those already engaged in the calling, will come an improvement in the social position and comfort of servants generally. As to the process of forming a local branch, the secretary says: "This is the way in
will each take up a £1 share, the local committee of management is formed, and so mistress and servant come into contact with each other. We shall take care, so far as it is possible, to exclude undesirable persons from membership. Servants must fur- i nish us with three references before we
waiters, and Oscar, the ohef, is schoolmaster. Twice a week sohool meets, and every waiter is expected to attend punotually. Few of the diners at the big hotel know that in each room there are three men whose sole office is to watch the waiters and see that they do their duty.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2646, 30 November 1904, Page 49
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231THE SERVANT QUESTION. Otago Witness, Issue 2646, 30 November 1904, Page 49
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