CANDIDATES FOR EMPLOYMENT.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1100, 15 July 1882, Page 4

CANDIDATES FOR EMPLOYMENT.

Of late I continually see groups o£ men hanging about at public squares carrying placards calling attention to their destitute condition, and holding meetings to discuss the situation. Not that I mean to suggest that there is any unusual destitution about, but there is always a large floating population in London and all great cities who are more or less penniless through misfortune, and some circumstances or other hare tended to bring them very much uppermost of late. The Lord Mayor has held one or two meetings, and I believe a fund has ■been started to aid emigration. The Agent-General for Canada has been appealed to, and a large number of healthy men have gone out on the Pacific Railway works. Of course the want of work is not confined to males ; large numbers of women would be thankful for help, and I have a communication from a gentleman in New Zealand adverting to tjiis very matter, and saying that he is certain a great opening exists in the Colony for young women of good character. He avers —and I believe, from what I have elsewhere read and heard, that it is a fact— namely, that there is a great danger in all the Colonies of cultivating a race of wealthy sensualists, whose highest aim is to ape the vices of the European cities. The New Zealander to whom I refer states that in some respects Te Whiti and his followers presented a sadly favorable example to his European rulers when these latter took him over. The temperate habits of these Maoris positively astounded the Europeans. From this it is averred that the influence of women is much wanting abroad, and that one of the best blessings a Colony can have is on importation of young women, who after a few years' experience in a different clime and state of society would then be eligible as wives and mothers. Truly, if New Zealand can offer any suggestions or assistance in this matter, it might possibly turn out well for both sides in the bargain. —N.Z. Times.