ENCUMBRANCES.
THE LOT OF THE IMMIGRANT WITH CHILDREN. .Uy TeiecraDh-Preßs Aeuoclatlon-OooyrlEht. :'■ •.;.■'-'.'._■ London, March 29. ■ Concerning the statement by tho Sydney, correspondent of "The Times," that married.immigrants to New South Wales were denied employment because they were encumbered with children, Mary Gaunt (Mrs. B. Lindsay 'Miller, the novolist, born in Victoria), in a letter to "Tho Times," . quotes , the . proverb to the effect that, the, frontier is. hard on women and on horses. " •.. . ,-..'. "Australia,", she says, "was not won without hardships. Nowhere does individuality tell inoie markedly, than-in the immigrant. . Those who aro unprepared to imitate, the earliest settlers—risk somothing and incur some deprivation for their- own future—had: .better, stay and starve comfortably in old England." : The letter, justifies the attitude of Australian ■ farmers,'-i and < asks whether an English mistress engaging a cook , would not dismiss her. on the discovery that she would be likely to become,a. mother.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 779, 31 March 1910, Page 5
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147ENCUMBRANCES. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 779, 31 March 1910, Page 5
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