FIVE THOUSAND WIVES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 267, 1 April 1911, Page 10

FIVE THOUSAND WIVES.

Following an announcement in the English press that "five thousand English girls are wanted, to become the wives of young Canadian farmers" the immigration staff of the Canadian Northern Railway were overwhelmed with correspondence.

The number of letters received «rew steadily each day. till one morning's delivery reached the handsome figure of 600. "The same thing is happening at our six branch offices throughout the country," said Mr. Howell the Canadian Northern Railway immigration .vent, to a reporter. " "Unfortunately a vigorous 'wcedingout' process has to be pursued, in the of which the piles of letters become very much reduced, for only women who are thoroughly domesticated ami anxious to do good and steady work are likely to make good wives for (lie Canadian farmers in; the future.'' Applications have' come in from all parts of England, and from all classes of women—hospital nurses, school teacher., and housekeepers, though the great majority are from domestic servants. A "Happy Matron" writes to urge the agent to visit Cornwall, where he will liiifl plenty of "pretty faces without paint or powder." Another correspondent wants to know if "the widows stand a chance." Another more brusquely demands to know "if you would get me a young man; I don't want one very oil."