MAORI GIRLS AS DOMESTICS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8780, 6 April 1907, Page 2

MAORI GIRLS AS DOMESTICS.

Per Press Aa jelation, Gisborne, April 5. The subject of Maori girls taking up domestic service was discussed at To Auto Association’s Conference to-day. A letter from Bev. Gittos (Auckland) was read stating that in Auckland Maori girls had been in service a long time with success. Most of them belonged to Bangatira families, and so good had been the conduct of the girls that were there twice as many looking for positions they coidd all bo accommodated. They worked under a rough code of rules and were under personal supervision of a lady church worker.

It was-rosolved, “ That this Conference, believing that the future welfare of the Maori race is largely dependent on the work of women in the management of the home, and the training of their children, would strongly advocate Maori girls seeking employment m good pakcha homes as domestic servants, where they may most effectively bo fitted to benefit both themselves and their race.”