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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4418, 1 June 1909, Page 4

■F> n ~ , v \ -■enough, mm §■l; a roally ■bis lmd been !STite a as Dunedin wns concerned, few domestics who did arrive there were either previously engaged or had friends to go to immediately they arrived. It was hard to fane. a solution of the problem, but Miss Hale suggested that if a domestic training school \yss established and mothers would send their daughters there instead of to offices and so forth, it won cl in time serve a gTeat deal 1o relieve the acuteness of things, and the advantages of such an institution would bo very material on both sides. Nowadays a very great number of young women knew absolutely nothing about the duties of the household, and with the steady and ever increasing flow of female labour in directions other than the home the position was becoming woise every year.