DOMESTIC SERVICE.
The Government of New Zealand will render a real service to the community if it sets to work to import a few thousand domestic servants from the Old Country. The position in the Dominion at tho present time is most distressing. Young women will not engage in domestic duties for love or money. Infatuated wii.ii the towns, eaten up with false pride, filled with a lust for gaiety and amusement', the majority of the colonial-bred girls refuse to accept responsibilities in the home. They prefer low wages as dressmakers, typist.es, clerks and factory girls, where- they can have a. certain amount of freedom, to what they term the "drudgery" of domestic service, even though it bo more lucrative. There is something radically wrong with our social and education systems- when such a condition of tilings is possible. The importation of domestics, which is an absolute necessity, can only be 'regarded as a temporary expedient.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 5 March 1913, Page 4
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156DOMESTIC SERVICE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 5 March 1913, Page 4
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