IMMIGRATION.

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17167, 25 March 1927, Page 6

IMMIGRATION.

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LOND.ON, March 22. The IMinistry of Labour lias received an interesting first batch of letters from the labour cxchange for unem'ployed migrants tvho, partly trained for agriculture work in Norfolk and Suffolk before going to Australia, all urge reform in the training system as they say they found things" to be very' difierent. and farmers too busy to teach them during harvest time, so English depots should install harvesters to train men in Australia. The Departmenf proposes to curtail the period of training from four months to seven to ten weeks in order to expedite embarkalion. So far 505 lyds liave been sent out to Austrr.lia from depots since the New Ycnr.