AUSTRALIA'S IMMIGRANTS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 31 March 1910, Page 3

AUSTRALIA'S IMMIGRANTS.

A NOVELIST'S VfEWS

"IMTTATE THE EARLIEST

SETTLERS."

'BY ELECTRIC TELECnAPn-COPYRIGHT

[PKR PREB9 ABSOCTATTON.]

LONDON, .March 30. Concerning tlio statoinentc bv the Sydney correspondent of the Times, that married immigrants to New South "Wales were denied employment because they ivere encumbered with rliilrlrtT.il. Marv Gaunt (Mrs t . Lindsay Miller, the novelist, horn in Victoria), in a letter to the Tinier riuotos tlio proverb to the effect than the frontier is hard on women and on horses. "Australia," .she says, "war, not won without hardships. Nowhere does individuality tell more nunrlcedly thnn in the immigrant. These who nre unpreparcu to imitate the earliest settlers—risk something and incur some deprivation for their own future—hntl better stay and starve comfortublv in old England." The letter justifies the attitu-d" of Aiisti'iilinn farmers, mid nf-'ks whether an English mistress ensrfigintr ?•• cook would not dismiss her on the discovery that uhn would he likely to ber-omn a mother.