A Praiseworthy Undertaking

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 20, 14 May 1903, Page 9

A Praiseworthy Undertaking

How to find work for Irishwomen in Ireland is a problem more easily stated than solved, judging from the emigration returns and the numbers of women in all ranks of life who are seeking remunerative employment in their nati\e country. An interesting hi tie offshoot of the lush Industiies Association, tho Cruagh Lace School, which has been established in a village a few miles souih of Dublin (says the 'Freeman's Journal '), affords an example which might, with advantage, be followed elsewhere The school is under the direction of a committee, of which tho chairman is the Rev. Father Gossan, I' P Nearly a score of girls from the surrounding district are engaged every day at the school under a qualified teacher in the production of Carrickmacross, Applique, and Guipure, the proceeds of the sales being divided be-

tween the workers on the co-ojTerative principle It is future y mcr ease considerably m the near