CHILD IMMIGRATION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9684, 7 January 1910, Page 4

CHILD IMMIGRATION.

Child immigration will probably ere long play an increasingly important part in the peopling of the Canadian Dominion. Hitherto this branch of the problem has received less attention than it deserves. For years children have been sent to Canada by various philanthropic agencies in Eng- ] land, and the movement has been entirely successful. But there is room for a great development of the system. In his report, just issued, the chief inspector of British immigrant children states that in the year to March 31st last, the various receiving homes in Canada received applications for 15,417 children; whereas only 2,424 were sent out from the United Kingdom. During the years 1900-1 to 1907-8 inclusive, the total number emigrated was 16,610, while the applications for children numbared no fewer than 115,408. Those acquainted with the conditions and the results already achieved are agreed tfcat child immigration is far more idvantageous tlan aclult immigrati n, and it is iuggested that if a proportion of tl e children in poor law institutions at Home could be sent to the Dominion, it would be of graat benefit to the children themselves and to the Empire.