EMIGRANTS' CHANCES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 785, 7 April 1910, Page 5

EMIGRANTS' CHANCES.

THE CHILD PROBLEM. SIR G. REID'S EOSY PICTURE. Br Teleirraph—Press Association—Copyright (Hec. April G, 9.50 p.m.) : London, April 6. Sir Geo. Keid, High Commissioner for the Commonwealth, has issued a statement in which lie says:—"There is some ground for recent strictures upon the advertisements of some Australian employers for married women without encumbrances, but these cases, which are regrettable, are not common. To extend their (significance into a general unwillingness to welcome married immigrants is a gross injustice. Australia wants workers and their wives and families."

He quotes tho telegram frpm the Commonwealth Prime Minister, Mr. Deakin, showing that the assistance offered by the Government to married immigrants and their children is greater than that offered by any country seeking population. Sir Geo. Reid adds:—"The truth is that Australia has no fixed agricultural labouring class. The farm worker of to-day becomes the prosperous farmer of a. few years Hence. Industrious British emigrants may go assured that they will have power quickly to become freeholders. Wages are high, and land is obtainable at easy prices." •

BOYS FOR FARM-TRAINING IN • CANADA. LQntJon, April 5. Under the auspices of the Public Schools' Immigration League, the Hev. Dr. Gray, headmaster of Bradlield College, is taking a dozen youths to' a thousand-acre r«nch in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where they will be trained to qnablo them to take up farming fpr themselves..

THE LEAGUE AND ITS WORK. ADAPTABLE MATERIAL WANTED. At a conference last December of headmasters of English public schools, the R«v. Dr. H. B. Gray, of Bradfielfl Colleje, proposed'» resolution welcoming the development of a Public School League for Land Settlement in the Overseas minions, and recommending the governing bodies of schools to make annual grants to enable the league to establish a, central office in London.

Dr.' Gray referred to the United States immigration invasion of- Canada, and asked would the Union Jack or the Stars and Stripes fly over the' Government offices of Ottawa fifty years Hence." Parents had previously sent their failures to-the colonies. He attributed'the failure of public schoolboys in the colonies to, lack of purpose, lack of adaptability, and lack of self-reliance. Australians aid Canadians abominated swagger. The Rev. l)r, A. W. Upcott.of Christ's Hospital, suggested the initiation of a capital, fund. to prevent deserving boys being' hamjjered for want of capital. The resolution proposed by Dr. Gray was carried.

The Public School League for Land Settlement in the Overseas Dominions has sprung oiut of an association of public school men at Montreal, formed in 1905 to orgaipse a system by which friendly advice and guidance, based on local knowledge, might bo given- to young men from British public schools taking up their residence in the Dominion. Writing on this matter, the-"Public Schools Year Book",says that, experience- has proved that -there is just as much necessity for distinguishing between the .fit and the unfit, tho deserving and the undeserving,' in this class of immigrants as in any' other. " The dumping of public school failures on Canada, especially has done.'a ..great .'.deal to bring public school training 'into contempt in the Dominion. This is no doubt the reason why more'than 50 men trained in English - schools, many occupying- impqrt-;a-nt positions, formed • this association, ;and to institute branches at ieading points in Canada in order to (leal with thei difficulty. _ Applicants -receive from a committee in. England certificates showing that they are' bona-fide public school men, and that they have porne a first-rate character at school and since leaving. To those who bring satisfactory credentials of this kind the association extends friendly welcome, and gives such advice and assistance in securing suitable employment and establishing social connection as circumstances permit. V