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    74 REPORT OF THE SOCIETY FOR

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    Iisr Stating The Progress .Of The Societ...

    committees to work withthe Central Committee in London , to forward instructions as to , the kind and number of educated women to

    gether required and promote with _, the all , situations most such advantageousl information vacant , or as y likel may to both y assist soon countries the to become Home , the Committee vacant objects , in - ,

    view . to The them local to receive committees the , ladies or agents on their appointed arrival by to and direct responsible them to

    safe and , respectable lodgings when necessary , , and , in all cases , to protect and assist them while character and conduct remain

    unimpeachable The Committee _. mention that those who in the among

    meantime have alread , may y been sent out by the Society , was one of 250 a year candidates . She is who now app proceeding lied for a to London Murray situation River have to been of take twelve assisted a situation pounds to _,

    of emi sixt grate y , pounds viz . six a to year Sydney . Fourteen , one to Otago others , one to Madras , three to Melbourne Arrangements , two to have Natal been , and made one to to Canada transfer . the working of this

    branch to a member of the Committee acting under the Society . It will thus be capable of much greater extension than if included

    among The the Committee ordinary have work made at the inquiries office . as to the possibility of

    trades introducing but women owing to int the o the great music expense -printin of g individual and music experiments -engraving ,

    ; they Besides are obli incident ged to al wait hel for towards a better emp opening loyment . in wood-engraving p

    been and print found -coloring throug , h & c the ., several Societ situations Inquiries under were photograp made hers about have the

    individual prospects for cases women it was in not lithograp found y . h possible y , but exc to ept forward in one these or . two It received

    having apprentices been in ascertaine hairdressers d ' that shops g , irls a class would was not formed be for instruc as

    tion . Two pupils were apprenticed to the dial-painting * trade , and

    their The progress Committee is sati would sfactory take . this opportunity of pointing out how of

    The niuch women rep it l in y is made in the the trades by power a well by of -known which ladies their to London encourage _requirements tradesman the emp to are an loyment supp _aiDp lied lica- . Ladies have the

    tion to him to take a woman as assistant , was , " . matter were to in ask their to be own waited hands on : by if every a woman lady , as we she should came be int obli o my ged shop to

    supp An ly address one . " to the tradesmen of London concerning the further

    two employment hundred ladies of women of influence in shops and has circulated been signed in the by newspapers upwards of ,

    * Painting' tlie figures , & c , on , the dials of clocks and watches .

    74 Report Of The Society For

    74 REPORT OF THE SOCIETY FOR

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1861, page 74, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101861/page/2/