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It is not thought, therefore, that the minimum age for employ- ment of female domestic servants should be raised at this stage. Although figures are not available, it is believed that very few girls under the age of 14 are actually employed as domestic servants and the only practical effect of any amendment might be to draw attention to the matter and arouse adverse criticism of even the age of 14. When the time comes to limit non-industrial, as well as industrial, employment to persons not under the age of 14; itself a move to a great extent dependent on the provision of greater opportunities for secondary education; the minimum age for domestic service could best be adjusted at the same time.
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Honourable Members will be asked to advise whether the mini- mum age for employment of female domestic servants should remain at twelve years, until such time as circumstances justify a change.
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