Some little ago instructions were given to Sir Thomas Robinson, the ijentGeneral, to advertise in the United Kingdom for navvicß for work on the Queensland railway*. The Premier (Mr. Denham) stated last week that it was expected that the first shipment of about 000 or 800 men would arrive in Queensland about April 30. Other shipment! would follow monthly until approximately 3000 men in all had been secured. The men would be landed at coastal ports, and taken at once to the scene of their labors, which would be on the western line. Mr. Denham said that there would not be the slightest difficulty in aecu.ing the whole of the men required. Referring to Mr. Winston ChurcttM'g statement in the British House of Commons, that an exhaustive investigr'-ion was being made into the charge" t!;at Mormon missionaries were actively engaged in inducing voting British girls to emigrate to Utah City, President Smity, chief of the Mormons, replied that he would gladly welcome the investigation, ns it would do the Mormon Church a vast amount of good, and"set~lh"e faIST charges nt ijest.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 267, 21 March 1911, Page 5
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181Page 5 Advertisements Column 6 Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 267, 21 March 1911, Page 5
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