DOMESTIC GRIEVANCE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 2 October 1913, Page 7

DOMESTIC GRIEVANCE.

(To tie Editor) Sir, —One often hears the question, why are servants difficult to get in tho country? Simply because seveneighths of the employers want to treat their servants as though they were machines. They start work at G a.m., and finish one "continuous tramp at 7.30 p.m. I myself have been cooking for nearly three months, and I have never in that time sat down for thirty minutes altogether in the whole thirteen and a half-hours per day; and I have never omce been told to take a half day's holiday. Cannot we in the country demand a half-day per week out of the seven? I don't see why wo should have more to do and longer hours than those working in town. We get no evening's entertainment; simply work and straight to bed. You can always tell anyone from the country. I think it is simply because wo get half daft, and-are treated as though we were only meant for slavery. lam told I shall have to oook six meals a day and start at four in the mornings at shearing time, with no extra pay, on wages of a pound a week. I should like to hear if all cooks in the country are treated liko this. If so, I think I will soon get baok to town and freedom.—l ajgijetc, A CHTJM. \ ■