WHERE WOMEN CAN FIND HUSBANDS.

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 20, 12 August 1893, Page 10

WHERE WOMEN CAN FIND HUSBANDS.

Our London contemporary, the Millon, is still publishing articles on this subject, and in a recent issue ■writes : “ The young gentleman representing tha Agent-General for New Zealand, in answer to a question about female emigration to that colony, replied that he did not know that they wanted a lot of ivomen knocking about the colony. Nevertheless, a useful little hand-book compiled by Mr W. B. Perceval, the Agent-General of the colony, contains a paragi aph about female labour there which is well worth quoting. “ On the farm (he says) the wives and daughters of settlers find occupation in duties which present an unceasing round of service. These duties are in many cases now being lightened by the institution of dairy factories, which relieve the women of the duties of butter making. Still, the housework, cooking and washing for a family, if properly carried out, prevent any idleness or ennui from visiting the household. The life, on the whole, is a happy one, blest by the buoyant health of those who live in the clear fresh air; and, except in the cases of the morn solitary and isolated farms, there is plenty of visiting and flitting about—no population being so constantly touring as that of New Zealand, as is testified by the crowded trains and steamers which serve a people sparse and scattered as it at present is. Domestic service attracts few, and it is difficult to keep good female servants, as they marry as soon as their worth becomes known.'’