Rarotongan Girls Find
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Nz Jobs
Rarotonga, April 20.
ABOUT 20 Rarotongans, mostly girls, left for New Zealand by the “Matua” in April, the largest number at one time for some years. Apparently, there is a shortage of female, as well as male labour, at the moment, and even though some of those who go up can only speak English very poorly, they seem to get on splendidly as house-girls and sometimes factory workers. In one case, a boy who could neither speak nor understand a word of English was soon earning £5 a week in a timber mill—rather an induce ment to an adventurous boy in Raro tonga who, at best, can make 3/- a day at plantation labour.