EMIGRATION TO THE COLONIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 41, 7 February 1908, Page 3

EMIGRATION TO THE COLONIES

MEETING UK lE.YTUAL UuAliO. IIIE (.LASS ok CULUMEs WANT.

Ueceivcd tith, ii.jo p.m. . . London. Ici.uiv li. llie sixth annual ine.-u,,- of to" i. i. li-al Emigration Board was acid at Lord Brasscy's house. •Mr. Tozer Agent-General i»r Hue. (island, and Mr. O.lliu-, icprcsctatne .i the I'oiumonwcalth. were prc.-nt. .Mr. Agent-General tor New s.iitn .Wales, and .Mr. Taverner. Agent-'.;™, ral for Victoria, wrote declining to attend. »n the ground tint the per-oi.s tlic Itoard selected to emigrate v.0u1.l I c lit. i welcome to Australia, living m«-ily fail- | tires ~f the towns. The iep..rt staled I Ihat Ml t-i,| |,«d emigrated, almott I all to Canada, where employment »j-, found for them. Lord lira—e\- -aid if Ihe Board were properly >-U]".]..,i i, a it would acciuiiplish much nioie. Lord Itanfnrly moved pledgi,,,, ,|, a meeting to support the Board i7i promoting the emigration of suitable u>:il desirable persons in the l nited Kin-.'.iiii I to the colonies. He stated that no ,iic I sent would If unsuitille to the coio- I nics.

Mr. Jenkins, the South Australian: Agent, said emigrants only needed mill Jfle pluck and a suitable start. Mr Bason, of Western Australia, -aid llie type of emigrant wanted in Australia constantly varied in eack Stale. The Government must be the judge of .suitability. Settlers for the land are principally required at present. The. reso-' lution was carried. Bernard Wise, Sydney, moved a motion of approval with the Board's work. He slid it was useless to send the social driftwood of England to the dominion* over-seas. Kinloch Cooke claimed that the fund entrusted to the Board was ad(ninisUred l>y men with practical colonial experience. The motion was carried.