BRITAIN’S WOMEN SURPLUS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3501, 1 June 1920, Page 6

BRITAIN’S WOMEN SURPLUS.

‘AN EMIGRATION MOVEMENT. NEW YORK, March 1. The 'Sa.lv.ation Army in the Brifis Isles, working in co-operation with th L Government, is promoting‘emigratio 5 of the approximately 1,250,000 wome 5 in excess of the male population IICI‘E ' Commissioner David 0. Lamb, 1401130? v Foreign Secretary of the Army, on : - mission to the United States, has an nounced -here. Spinsterhood or emigration is tht fate of these women, the Commissionej asserted, adding: We ofic-or no apology for active propaganda designed to pro cure a better‘ distribution of the sexes There are a million and :1. quarter more women than men in the British Isles to-day, and one of the biggest after-the-war tasks assigned the Salvation Army in Britain is to 'stinlula'te female eniigrution and direct it to those colonies in the British Empire such as .We.<t.ern C:1n:1d:1 and ’po:'!‘ions of Africa and Aiistrali-a, where there are more male than female inhabitants. The prospect of placing female domestics in the United States has not been overlooked. The Salvation Army has despatehed several shiploads iof emigrants to Canada :1l1'eu(ly. We 3 help them make arrangements -to leave the Old Counrty. provide transportation when neoess'-dry, and throughout our world-wide organisation, see to it that the emigrants are safely settled in the new land. Our records show that of the girls who eniigrated some years ago to certain sections where ‘women were in the minority 00 per cent. were married within ‘three years of their mo.-ival. This fact and the opportunities For work at good wages: in other lands are"ilot. without significance to the tens of ‘thousands of thoughtful and enterprising women in the British Isles.