YOUNG IMMIGRANTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 172, 20 January 1914, Page 6

YOUNG IMMIGRANTS.

Alii. T. SKDCWK K IN MOW k /.''.ALAND. :',-, • > • -'.-:;- lion. - 1 a • Auckland, .lamur, If). ~ Ml-. Thomas Sedgwick, of "Hedgiviek j Hoy.-*' fainc. i- now making a (our nl" pre.-.-; upon all i-oni-enn-d in the i|ii.-s----tioii of immigration the advisability of pavim: -pcial attention to (he bringing oil't of Inns I'roin tin- (lid Country. Mr. Scduwick "urges that the only .ptaliiiialiim.s I'm- lid'.s desiring lu come 0111 should he of fitiic,-. and (inaiu-i.il oiialihatious should not In- allowed to obtain, •■ .-one- of (In- best boys, lie say,, an- nl'li-ii found among those who arc unable to raise (in- .-'null sum rcijuired

for I lie passa«e 111011.-v. ■ In speaking of the ."a! boys he brought from (he Old Connlrv two and a half | vears a-o Mr. Seil.uwi.-k says th.-.f the j i-iviilK of this experiment had been i-x-I i-n-dinalv Mitisfaetore. l-*or(y of the 1)oys. iie said, were si ill on the laud, and had amounts in tile savin".-, bank of an itvcnijji- of (*.->!) or Clin i-.u-li. Of the retea boys two had none lo Alls■(lali.i. three had "one lo town em,>loYui.dl. l-.M. had reliirned to Hie Old Oountrv, one was dead, and two had been lost si.ylit of. Mr. Seilifwii-l; said Unit tile fuel that l-'il per ti-nt. of (lie bov- were nlill en the land, ;\ml doin-; well, w-.-s \rry satinfai-lory. as was n'-o -the fail that' !!li per e.-nt' of (he money .advanced 10 the bov-i to pav their fares Jlll,l been repaid.

In the i-a-.e of the eonl ingenl tii.it i.-.-me out lo South An.- (ralia.'th:- whole boys. wl:i!-t Do ])er cent, of the nuiinint adviinced lu some bovs wkn w.-nl to New Nnilii Wales had' h-i-i: ri-iaid. Mr. Sed-v.-ick tiial a' traiuiny ,I'iiriii for bovs and a doine-iii- I coll.-e for eiHs should be esiabli.he:! ,-n ihe Do minion, ami that if pie-iiile iiii-iiiiiieiiicnts sould le- made for ri-ekir balche- of ;he "jiiiiiiir i!i::ni'..r:i!U-." lie ,4aled that he ' had made 'n-pr.--.-ut-.-tii-ns on the subject to tile (ioveruiiient.