THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1907. ACCEPTED AND REJECTED.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8390, 2 April 1907, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1907. ACCEPTED AND REJECTED.

The London correspondent of the Sydney Daily Telegraph gives an interesting account of the working of the new immigration policy of the New South Wales Government The Agent-General sebcts the immigrants carefully, and will have nothing to do with' men who do not seem likely to get on in a new country. In one week some thousands were dealt with, but so hopeless were the majority that out of 2,300 applicants who answered certain advertisements, only 85 could be accepted. The office was offered a large body of the unemployed, but they were mostly workhouse people who could do no good for themselves, and their guardians thought it would be cheaper to ship them to the colonies than to keep them at Home. The Agent-General, however, ' declined the offer. The correspondent noticed among a crowd of applicants a compositor with eight children, who would land with £9: a shop assistant with three children and £l2; a married clerk with £ls, who had been out of work for ten months; a cotton spinner with three children, and a chairmaker with four of a family, and no capital. These were rejected, not being of the sturdy type required. All the likely-looking were eagerly snapped up. But Canada has been roused to even greater efforts by this energy of the New South Wales Government. The papers are full of Canadian advertisements not only guaranteeing work to- every able-bodied man and woman who comes to the country, but wages of from 8s to 9s 6d per day for navvies and general labourers used to railway and road making. Railway extension in Western Canada requires (50,000 men. It is feared that this will handicap the New South Wales people a good deal, for to an emigrant Government guarantee of work means everything'. However, the

New South Wales officials contend that no Government can guarantee men permanent employment, and they rely on the many advantages which the State, has over Canada to counteract the promises of the latter country.