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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2177, 5 September 1907, Page 1

About .30 or 10 young follows recently travelled to Queensland, and almost all have returned to Victoria, not satisfied with the conditions. They say that nine out of ten people who went to Queensland “were cui'sing the place for all it was worth.” Sir J. Crichton- Browne, in a speech at the Mansion House, London, on the food of the people, had something to say about the efforts to force education into young and badly nourished children. “If 1 wanted to produce a community of hooligans and im'beci-1 les,” lie declared, “1 would take a number of children, starve them .from time to time, and cram them with •what is known as a liberal education.” Enquiries made from a loc il labour bureau, by a AVairarapa Daily Tillies reporter, elicted the information that the labour market is now brightening up consideably. “There is any quantity of work for callable and willing young men,” said the proprietor. “As far as scrub-cutting and bush-felling contracts are concerned, we have never ceased to have vacancies throughout the winter. Ploughmen and shepherds, are now in request, as their busy season is at- hand.”