GIRI. IMMIGRANTS.
9 OFFICIAL KEPLIES TO CRITICISM. By ToleeraDh—Press Association—Conrrlirhi London, October 14. Mr. P. Hunter, the State Director of Immigration, has replied to the statements mado to the Empire Trade Commission by Lady Knightly of Fawsley and Mrs. Ellen Joyce, on behalf of the' British Women's Emigration Society, to the effect that girls sent to Australia by the society had arrived safely; but that there was proof that attempts had been made to corrupt other female emigrants on shipboard, and that girls were also tempted, at wayside ports or on arrival in Australia, to abandon domestic service. Mr. Hunter states that fJew South Wales takes every precaution, ne attributes the attacks of tho society to pique at the Emigration Department's refusal to permit tho league l to interfere ill the management of immigration. Mr. Hunter has sent a communication to the Commission protesting against its being made tho vehicle of unjustifiable attacks.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1572, 16 October 1912, Page 7
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153GIRI. IMMIGRANTS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1572, 16 October 1912, Page 7
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