CHILD EMIGRANTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9590, 9 September 1909, Page 6

CHILD EMIGRANTS.

Upwards of 3,000 boys and girls are emigrating annually to Canada by the various philanthropic societies of the United Kingdom engaged in child rescue. The children are placed out on farms with carefully selected foster parents, where they quickly adapt themselves to their environment, and become absorbed as useful and efficient members of the farming community. They are visited regularly and inspected by representatives of the homes and of the Government, until they reach the age of 18. Canadians now recognise that this immigration yields the very best results. No fewer than 60.000 children have thus been transferred to Canada since the movement was initiatde in 1869. In the annual report of the Canadian Government chief inspector of immigrant children, that gentleman bears testimony to the admirable conduct by the societies in question of this immigration, and to the excellent results that have! attended it. Mr Bogue Smart states that during the last six years nearly 15,000 children came to Canada, for whom upwards 100,000 applications have been received trom approved persons in the country. He expresses regret that an increased number of children should not have been sent to Canada, in order that the present demand and the splendid opportunities available for carefully selected and trained children of this clasr. might have been taken advantage of.