BOYS FOR DOMINIONS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 April 1923, Page 1

BOYS FOR DOMINIONS.

StTIKMKS OF Y.M.C.A. wi:i.r.!.\oT(ix, Miirdi ;vi. Mi- Cyril Bavin. piv-ident and geitpr.ll s.ecrclarv -m ihe Migration Department of the r-nlioul Council oi the Young Mm's Christina Association, set i at from I.oiulini >'iiu- months ago on a mission to Canada, Australia and Yew Zealand, with certain proposals designed to enlist the co-operatinu o! churches and other bodies in the migration imivrini'iii. In the rMiM' ol an interview here yesterday, he said: “1 wish to emphasise particularly that the work I nm here to do is with the full approbation of the Immigration Department. I have had a. long interview with the I'niler-Seeretary. who realises that if the proposals [ am here to make to the ehim-hcs are acceptable, they will greatly I'neil'iate his own work, and will fall into line with his own policy. ‘'There are 750,000 hoys leaving school every year at Home,” said Mr Bavin. “Among them is the finest material for prospective New Zealanders. We are working in dose cooperation with the Overseas Settlenient Committee, and hath ol iis would like to see something more definite done by Xew Zealand to promote hoy migration from Jlritniii. We wanted 0000 hoys for South Au-trnlin, and had 80,000 applicants within four weeks. li we ran get an assurance tor the parents that the Iras are going out under proper <-ire and control, it will make all tlrdifference in the type of hoy font. ‘■We propose to transport a little Igt i f Dorliv-hire into Taranaki.” said Afr Ilnviu, in explaining that tile Y.M.C.A. aimed a! taking a group of hoys from ,i Particular county to -end them to particular district in one of the lloiiiinitiTH. Thei would he -is near to each other as they were at ILoino. Til that propinquity, he said, lay much of the success they hoped to attain with (heir scheme in New Zealand, Tu pursuit- of his mission Mr Bavin goes to I’almei'idll North on Monday, subsequently visiting Christchurch. Dunedin and Auckland, where he will seek to roils;- the intore-t of church .authorities.