DOMESTIC SERVANTS
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OOIUUIPTKD ON BOARD SHIP. A SERIOT'S ALLEGATION. (Received Last Night, 0.0 o'clock.) LONDON, October 12. Tho Lady Knightley of Fawsley and Mrs Ellen Joyce, on behalf of the British Women's Emigration Society, gave joint ovidence before the Empire Commission. They eta ted that girls Bent to Australia by the Sowoty 'wero in safe keeping j but they had proof that attempts were made to corrupt other female emigrants on board ship. They were also tempted ab wayside ports, or on their arrival in Australia, to abandon domestic service. In some cases the girls disappeared altogether. The Society was of opinion that all emigration agents, should be licensed.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10710, 14 October 1912, Page 5
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116DOMESTIC SERVANTS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10710, 14 October 1912, Page 5
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