MISS FAITHFULS AND FEMALE EMIGRATION TO NEW ZEALAND.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 311, 12 February 1875, Page 3

MISS FAITHFULS AND FEMALE EMIGRATION TO NEW ZEALAND.

On the Ist. December, in the Quebec Institute, at a meeting presided over by \Sir Charles Clifford, Miss Faithfuli read a most interesting [ia|jer on female emigration to New Zealand. After having compared the advantages of New Zealand •with; other places—the ••United'Stales in particular—as a. colony,for emigrating to, Alias Faithfuli went on to show what the gain' was in' emigrating, and who were the. iiei>ons who ought to emigrate The wages for female labor in New Zealand are high;, as much as £3O 'r'jgSO a-year heing paul foi cooks, and.situations are so easily obtained that when a ship arrives there the women are generally all engaged hi ft.tew hours. Nor is it. necessary that emigrants should be perfectly trained sti - vunts. und on the-i ontrary .Miss Faithfuli >ai.l iljHt•il.r.s.' who hud ihe le'ust . xpcr - ience in biigiand as . "'duin'estii' »t'rvi;f;ta ■geiivrally turned out to be thiMnosi- sin;-

; cessful in the colonies. "This, she said, I wns owing to the opportunities for employ - j ment offered to young women wt-11 brought | up. hut who, 'owing to family pride, ob- ! jected to going to service "where they .were known In Hr—away Kew. Zealand the case was altogether different, and jhere the well-educated but poor middle-dass ] females coul d easily , ,earn a comfortabl." j living and could soon gain .independence j by doing things, and/getting paid, for whnt they could not do at Home. Within the last few years improvements have been made in: the accommodation and management of emigrant .vessels, and a girl might now go alone to New Zealand in one of those ships, with as much, propriety as she could go to the ball, a theatre, or a flower show in England. Miss Faithfull pointed out the advantage gained by a family emigrating together,- on account of the Government granting land to the value of £2O to every passenger paying for a free assisted passage. Thus a family might, on landing., finding itself possessed of a piece of land which would be its property for ever. .. Nor is it. necessary to settle on land thus -granted immediately on arriving in the colony, and a family might, by dividing and. going to service for .a year or two, soon be in a position to stock a.farm and cultivate, iMp the greatest advantage Sir' G. Clifford and some other gentlemen then addressed :the-meet-ing, which adjourned after a vote of thanks to the chairman.