DEARTH OF FEMALE LABOUR.
Regarding a complaint from Christchurch as to the dearth of female employees In clothing- factories, the Minister for Labour stated in Dunedin that it is the question of population over again. A further contributing cause of the shortage of female labour was, he stated, the
disinclination of young girls to enter factories. However, various batches of immigrants who were arriving in the Dominion, and among whom were a number of families, were serving to remedy matters somewhat, and girls of from 14 to 17 years of age who arrived here were eagerly sought after. The present was, of course, a busy period with factories, and accordingly the scarcity which was general throughout the Dominion was being more severely felt. !
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3031, 30 October 1908, Page 4
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123DEARTH OF FEMALE LABOUR. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3031, 30 October 1908, Page 4
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