At a meeting in Wellington, Marianne Tasker and supporters established a domestic workers’ union, hoping to use the Liberal government’s Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act to force employers to improve pay and conditions. Central to their demands was a 68-hour working week.
Domestic Staff
Events In History
Articles
Assisted immigration, 1947-75
New Zealand is a country of immigrants. Wave after wave of peoples have settled here: Polynesian, British, European, Asian. Read the full article
Page 2 - Peopling New Zealand
The Labour Department was responsible for setting up and administering the assisted immigration
Notes for My Successor
Until the late 1960s New Zealand's governors-general were British, mainly minor aristocrats, or admirals or generals. Read the full article
Page 4 - Staff and servants
Lord Bledisloe (1930–35) felt that senior staff 'should be fond of dancing and of games and sport of all kinds, as these accomplishments appeal to people here I would not have
Main image: Domestic staff, Government House, Auckland, 1903
Domestic staff, with the dog 'Shot', were photographed by H.J. Schmidt at Government House Auckland in 1903.
