Interprovincial

New Zealand Tablet, 19 June 1913, Page 36

Interprovincial

At a; banquet -at Awakino on Friday night the Postmaster-General announced that in May the Post Office Savings Bank; deposits exceeded the withdrawals by £99,516, as compared with an excess of £82,466 in May of last year. - '-'-

-, When questioned by a reporter (says a Press Association telegram from Christchurch), the Prime Minister said he could not say what course would be followed in regard to the Speakership. That would become apparent when the House met.

■-■-■ .Motor cars continue to be imported into the Dominion almost as fast as the oversea liners can cope with them.- At Wellington there are frequently landed a score at a time. On Friday last there was one lot of about 20 on the Queen's wharf.

' Domestic workers are still in great demand; many employers would be satisfied if they could secure the services of young girls to assist generally. In such cases neither cooking nor washing would be required of them, and the wages offered range from 10s to" 15s per week.All applicants, however, appear to prefer factory work.' These remarks are made by the officer in charge of the Women's Employment Bureau in Wellington in the course of her monthly report. She . says that during May she received 164 applications from employers and only 79 from workers. Sixty-six domestic workers were sought for and only 26 offered themselves.