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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3221, 19 June 1909, Page 4

Twenty-seven domestic servant girls recently arrived in Wellington, under engaaement to a Hawke'a Bay syndicate of ladies, who have suitable places for the girls to go to service. The syndicate is certainly performing a useful and patriotic work to. a limited extent, but when its immediate friends, so to speak, have their wants supplied we presume that it will, practically, cease operations. If the syndicate would devote itself to the immense work of seeing that every housewife and worried mother at present overworked had that degree of domestic assistance that she should properly have, it would not I merely earn the everlasting gratitude of many thousands of people, but would perform a patriotic service of a most meritorious and important character. A single aspect of the importance of the work suggested may be mentioned. Our politicians complain that the birth rate does not show a desirable buoyancy. The dearth of domestic assistance is in itself a circumstance that must most the birth rate.