Extract from the minutes of a meeting of the Cabinet
'Relaxation of restrictions on entry of alien female domestic servants and alien technicians'
(GC 4/268) (Item 3) (S13931)

Consideration was given to a memorandum dated 21st June, 1947,¹ submitted by the Minister for Industry and Commerce, relative to the Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee set up to examine the question whether it would be in the public interest to relax in any way the existing restrictions on the immigration of persons, particularly women, desiring to take employment in this country.

Approval was given to the implementation of the Committee's recommendations regarding the employment of alien female domestic servants.²

In the case of technicians, it was decided that, subject to their satisfying the requirements of the Minister for Justice as to personal character, aliens who, in the opinion of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, possess some technical qualifications or special knowledge of value to the country, should be permitted to enter the country freely, provided that they have
(a) an offer of employment, or
(b) means of maintaining themselves for a reasonable period, or
(c) friends who undertake to be responsible for their maintenance,
and that they should be allowed to take up employment freely.

The Government concurred in the view of the Minister for Industry and Commerce that the sending of a mission by the Government to recruit technicians in Germany and Austria was undesirable.