IMMIGRATION.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1748, 13 May 1913, Page 6

IMMIGRATION.

MISS M'LGAN TO BE MATRON. Afisi Agnes M'lpnii, a sister of Dr. M'Lean, of AVellington, has been appointed by the Public. Service Commissioner to the position of matron in the Departnicut of Immigration. ' The position carries a salary of ,£ISO per annum, rising to .£2OO. The work of the matron will bo to meet immigrant girls arriving at llio various Dominion ports and extend any necessary advice and assistance to I hem. For those girls who desire it, the matron will find employment as domestic servants through the 'Department of Immigration. In addition lo this the matron will keen some record of the doing of the immigrants niter their arrival, so that it innv be known whether the.v are fulfilling the conditions under which the Government n.rreed to assist tlieiri. In file past, .somo ■mis have come out, ostensibly as domestic. servants, but actually lo engage in other occupations, and hitherto no systematic record has been kept. The Minister in charge of Immigration recently announced (hat the Government intended to provide hotel accommodation for immigrant girls, at ports of arrival, bv arrangement with ccrfaun philantrop'hic societies, but under tho direct control of tlio Government.

The Dnnedin City Council invites architects to submit in competition designs.and estimate of a I own Hall, to be erected «t Dnnedin. The estimates nil Ik sul>init.ted in a preliminary competition 111 which four designs will bo chosen. All designs, with envelopes maTkoil ns set out in the conditions of competition, must reach the Dnnedin Town Clerk not later than July 2,1. "WZOIi" i 5 a household remedy of unnueVionablo merit, Unlikn most con? h medicines it Roes ripht to the root o the trouble, anil.' nut 11 nilly eno'ifrh, seldom litils t-.i' cited 11 t cure. !*. W. per bottle, (let a Nazul Inhaler— Advfc.