EMIGRATION TO CANADA SUSPENDED.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2111, 10 February 1908, Page 2

EMIGRATION TO CANADA SUSPENDED.

The London correspondent pf the Sydney “Daily Telegraph,” writes on December 13th:—A new development has taken place in connection with Canadian emigration. A notification just published indicates that emigration to the Dominion lias been totally suspended until April next. In a sense this is, of course, the usual winter arrangement, but a notification also appears setting forth that emigrants, before proceeding to Canada in April next, should take the precaution of obtaining employment before setting out. This announcement by the Dominion Government has fallen like a thunderbolt amongst tho largo number of Canadian agents in this country, who, though not directly in the employ of the Government, are subsidised by the shipping and railway companies. Some little time ago Mr Coghlan -arranged a series of lectures on New South Wales for high superior schools, and these were enormously popular,' especially among tho elder hoys. The. Canadian agents at once seized the idea, and arranged also for a series of lectures on Canada. These have now been abandoned in view of the present,change in tho emigration movement. It is probable that emigration to Canada will sink to very small dimensions during next year. The great pull that Canada had over Australia arose from the fact that every able-bodied laborer going to Canada was distinctly promised twelve months’ work, and this, of course, was a greater inducement to go to -Canada than to Australia. Now that this guarantee has been withdrawn, emigration to Canada will be correspondingly affected.