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Advertising for domestic servants

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Advertising for domestic servants

The revival of assistance for immigration in 1904 was based on farmers’ need for labourers, industry’s need for skilled workers, and the desire of middle-class families for domestic servants. The last factor was the inspiration for this advertisement, published about 1912.

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Jock Phillips, History of immigration – Migration: 1900 to 1914, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/2132/advertising-for-domestic-servants (accessed 3 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 August 2015.